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Intel Patents Anti-Overclocking Technology

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 25, 2003 @06:32AM from the as-fast-as-we-say-it-is dept.

VCAGuy writes "It appears that Intel has pantented a crystal-locking technology to lock processors to the processor's clock speed. The Inquirer has a story about it, and you can read the patent description from the USPTO. Let's hope AMD doesn't try to copy this..."

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YOU ARE DOUCHE!!!1 by Znonymous+Coward · 2003-03-25 06:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

>> Is it?

No.

Anonymous Coward, you are the biggest douche in the universe.

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Re:A.K.A. "Suicide" by gregorio · 2003-03-25 09:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

But if they're trying to tie the hands of hardware hackers, then Intel is shooting themselves in the foot, and AMD has just got a big win on a forfeit.
Oooh yeaaah, I'm pretty sure Intel execs will commite suicide when they loose 10k processor sales worldwide because some nerdy geeks who are already buying AMD anyway (mostly because they think that AMD is a poor little renegade, a victim, the brand for people against the big guys) are not going to buy their brand new processors.

:-P