Hey, why stop at asking people to pay to enable features that are already there
They should create a feature where your cpu spontaneously crashes, and you have to pay a subscription to stop that anti-feature.
The longer since the expiration of the anti-crash subscription, the more frequent the crashes. Maybe add a rising chance to brick the system while at it.
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostI so happy that AMD exists.
Thanks to AMD we got dual-core, 64-bit and virtualization, which we probably wouldn't get without AMD pushing it.
Now if only AMD could push ECC on consumer desktop motherboards and laptops that would be great.
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Originally posted by atomsymbol
It is an interesting approach to enabling CPU features, but a problem is that there is a worldwide shortage of chip manufacturing capacities and the "Software Defined Silicon" can only worsen the situation because all CPUs with this capability will have to contain defect-free silicon (such as: AVX-512 units which are disabled by default and can be enabled via a license) that is turned off until the user activates the licenced hardware feature.
Wikipedia: 2020-2021 global chip shortage
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Intel - you can pay to add features to your cpu.
Reality - you can pay intel to uncripple your cpu.
Fast forward to intel charging you a fee for each running cpu core.
Because overpaying for the cpu is not enough. We really have to work on uprooting that vile concept of end user ownership. The end user is not supposed to own anything, the end user is supposed to be owned by big tech.
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This is not new, lots of vendors will charge you extra for additional features that are already present in the hardware.
In any case, most likely these are licenses that you enable without expiration date. Although I suspect there will be a special "trial" license options with an expiration date.
What Intel is trying to accomplish with this is to mainly improve their profit margin, as the hardware will already have been paid for, so this is just pure profit.
They may claim that this allows them to lower the cost of the CPUs, but you should take that with a pinch of salt.
If you have purchasing power, you should consider putting something in your requirements that blocks this, such as "All functionality of the processor should be unlocked by default without the need to purchase additional licenses".
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Nobody in their right mind buys Intel CPUs these days and instead of improving they bring these subscription based garbage ?
Intel management, WTF are you smoking ?
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Originally posted by franglais125 View PostCan't wait to have subscription-based cpu features. /s
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I so happy that AMD exists.
Thanks to AMD we got dual-core, 64-bit and virtualization, which we probably wouldn't get without AMD pushing it.
Now if only AMD could push ECC on consumer desktop motherboards and laptops that would be great.
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Can't wait to have subscription-based cpu features. /s
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If I were Linus or Greg I would downright reject these.
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