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Intel to Take Online Suggestions for New Chips

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the horses-mouth dept.

hhavensteincw writes "Intel has quietly launched a new online community that it plans to use to take feedback and suggestions from OEMs and end users for new features in its vPro chips and management software. Intel envisions that the community will grow to allow users to get answers from other community members faster than Intel's support group can answer questions."

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  1. Re:New chips by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    OK, but we get to pick an ancient instruction set, as usual. How about 6502? (Plus since you can't address that 1TB you won't notice if we just happen to forget to include it!)

  2. Re:Important suggestion - be truly open by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Intel has nothing to lose by documenting all the instruction sets, architecture designs etc.

    You mean like here or here???

    They have such a big brand name - it doesn't really matter if their designs became public.

    Now there you're wrong: Hasn't the competition between AMD and Intel convinced you that, at various times, one of them knew something about processor design that the other hadn't yet implemented?
    A tech company giving up its core IP means giving up any edge, which translates to lower profits as competitors overtake the company.