The final paragraph
For now, Intel's On Demand program is reserved for servers, and we would expect it to remain a prerogative of Xeon platforms. Meanwhile, back in the day, Intel offered software upgrades for its desktop processors to make them run faster. Unfortunately, that program faced criticism as Intel essentially crippled its perfectly fine processors. As a result, some might think the On Demand program mimics the ill-fated Intel Upgrade Service. Still, keeping in mind that the server world behaves differently than the client PC world and that we do not know the terms of Intel's On Demand, we would not draw parallels here until we know all the details.
Waiting for windows to become an "os as a service" in a few years, then restrict you from storing things locally, then offer no options for local storage at all, until you own nothing, all your computer shit lives on an msft server and you'll lose access if you don't pay a subscription, and msft finds some way to inject advertising in to your dreams.
Every year is the year of desktop Linux, just like how every year is the year China collapses
at the same time, wait there's still people using windows since windows 8 came out? damn.
Waiting for windows to become an "os as a service" in a few years
That was the original plan for Windows 10 IIRC, something something "the last version of windows that will ever be released". guess they had to kick the can down the road
This is actually their plan, which is more and more likely to happen as they integrate AI, since AI requires a lot of processing power and tends to be run on servers.
Cool they break their CPUs with software and then charge for the privilege of unbreaking them.
Everyone's trying to get in on the subscription service grift because it looks good to the finance ghouls.
I would hope so too but it isn't that easy. Yes those cpu's are constantly vulnerable to side channel attacks and all that good spectre/meltdown shit. But if you look into the projects to actually overcome the management engine like libreboot and coreboot, shit is lagging behind by a WIDE margin. Cracking open cpu's is really really hard
Not The Onion? WTF. Shit like this is how I know that Communism will win. Capitalists are just too stupid to continue.
communism, year over year, everything progressive gets better for everyone
capitalism, all your rights, either by police brutality or inflation, are noticeably eroded, year over year
Lmao, this at a time when China is fast catching up in chip manufacturing and has demonstrated an ability to “overproduce” (read: build cheaper and better, and in greater quantities) pretty much anything they set their minds to.
Selling the rope, indeed
In Starsector humanity's technology became unreliable after the interstellar Gate network went down due to extreme DRM on all manufacturing schematics so they could no longer reliably create the things they needed to prop up interstellar civilization
Peak levels of scarcity not influencing value. They're literally admitting these things are so cheap to manufacture that they can build all of them to 100% yet sell them at, Let's say 60% until you pay them more.
Just screwing themselves over if AMD doesnt follow suit, and at a time where it seems AMD has been chipping at their marketshare
They'd do best to let Intel burn on that end. AMD is known for letting people do what they want with their chips.
And Intel is building huge fab plants in isntrael as we speak
This assumes super high yields: that they can make enough chips that qualify as high-end models to lock down some and sell them as upgradeable. The take rate on upgrades are <100%, so selling some $1000 CPUs +$500 upgrades later might not beat selling it as a $1200 full unlocked CPU today on average.
When Intel's secret sauce was world-leading manufacturing process, that might have flew, but do they have the capacity now?
the reason there were multiple skus is due to binning. So now they're telling me that they have much better yields where they don't need to bin, where most chips could be top tier, Making it cheaper for them and more expensive for anyone else?
