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I think intel must be smoking crack to come up with such a dumb idea.
Intel
Intel will soon sell processors that have been deliberately hobbled. In a scheme to be piloted with a limited number of retailers in Canada, the US, Spain and the Netherlands, the Santa Clara-based company shall sell a processor that can be “upgraded”. The CPU in question is the new Pentium Processor G6951 and to upgrade it you simply purchase a $50 “Processor performance Upgrade Card”, download and run an app from Intel and then insert the code on the card and some additional features will be unlocked.
The upgrade will result in 1 MB of additional cache being unlocked and hyper-threading enabled. What does that actually mean? Intel say:
The CPU Performance upgrade for Intel® Pentium™ Processor G6951 benefits compute-intensive applications that are designed to take advantage of multiple computing threads and larger CPU cache sizes. Examples include:
* Multitasking
* Rendering of photos, film, or music
* Most kinds of digital content creation
* Enjoying high-definition media
Intel
Intel will soon sell processors that have been deliberately hobbled. In a scheme to be piloted with a limited number of retailers in Canada, the US, Spain and the Netherlands, the Santa Clara-based company shall sell a processor that can be “upgraded”. The CPU in question is the new Pentium Processor G6951 and to upgrade it you simply purchase a $50 “Processor performance Upgrade Card”, download and run an app from Intel and then insert the code on the card and some additional features will be unlocked.
The upgrade will result in 1 MB of additional cache being unlocked and hyper-threading enabled. What does that actually mean? Intel say:
The CPU Performance upgrade for Intel® Pentium™ Processor G6951 benefits compute-intensive applications that are designed to take advantage of multiple computing threads and larger CPU cache sizes. Examples include:
* Multitasking
* Rendering of photos, film, or music
* Most kinds of digital content creation
* Enjoying high-definition media