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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. Faster support? by mpoulton · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps rather than hoping the community can outpace their support division, Intel should strive to improve their support division so they can always provide timely assistance to their customers?

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    I am a geek attorney, but not your geek attorney unless you've already retained me. This is not legal advice.
  2. The most important part: by nthwaver · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Robert Duffy, Intel's online communities strategist, added that some of the impetus behind creating the community was to boost online traffic to Intel."

  3. Re:ZOMG MORE CORES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Please. That's entirely unrealistic. Now, if you wanted 2048 cores*, that's doable!

    *(Cores are process-shrinked versions of the Intel 8088)

  4. Sort of off-topic... by Scottoest · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Has anyone else noticed how great the AMD-Intel marketshare battle has been for consumers? Intel, in particular, seems to have woken up and begun providing really good CPU's, as well as trying to reach out to the community through things like this.

    AMD/Intel should stand as a primary example of why honest competition is great for a market.

    - Scott

    1. Re:Sort of off-topic... by Grishnakh · · Score: 2, Insightful

      The "market" (or rather, customers) don't care that much about the environment; they're more concerned with their power bills. Modern computers can use a lot of power (remember, old 286s and 386s and even 486s didn't even require CPU fans), and it adds up over a year. It's even worse for organizations with lots of computers, and worse yet for datacenters with tens of thousands of computers in one small space. The power consumption of the CPU itself isn't the only factor; all that heat has to be moved away using air conditioning, so it's a double hit on the power bill. Reducing the watts of power consumption translates directly into substantial dollar savings.

      I also prefer that my office not get too warm from my computer (and since the thermostat isn't in my office, it tends to get much warmer than the rest of my house).

  5. TPM by KiloByte · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Drop the Treacherous Computing chip?

    Even though Intel is not going to do this in the foreseable future, at least not in a non-EU release (there's a chance our legislators may wisen up... oh well, whom am I kidding?), yelling loud enough and often enough may at least give Intel a hint that they're doing something wrong.

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  6. Re:TPM/DRM by KiloByte · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Repeat after me. TPM isn't DRM! TPM isn't DRM! Got it? Good! TPM which is controlled by anyone else than the machine's owner is quite related to DRM -- except, instead of restricting what you can do with a piece of software it restricts hardware instead. One of key uses for restricting hardware at the moment is making sure DRM is not being circumvented.

    TPM does have a lot of potential beneficial uses, but they all require the owner to have control over the key.

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  7. They're taking advantage of a new trend by Whuffo · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The "web 2.0" plan is to let the people each contribute a small amount - so that everyone can take advantage of the contributions of many. This works well - many examples exist today.

    Then some corporate drones looked at what was happening and though "how can we take advantage?" So they got the "each contribute a small amount" part but overlooked the "everyone takes advantage" part. The corporate version is more like "everyone contributes a small amount and the corporation takes advantage". Many corporations have tried this plan and they've been left wondering "what went wrong?"

    So here comes Intel - they're asking the people to contribute ideas and then they'll take advantage of them. We've seen this play out before and the result is always the same. Hey, Intel - if you really want people to do your work for you, you need to include some way to compensate them in your plan. You didn't really expect them to do this for you for free, did you?

    I suspect they did - and when this plan fails miserably they'll pick some unfortunate person in their corporation to take the blame for the failure. They'll never for a moment think that their plan was flawed and doomed to failure from the start...

  8. Re:I have a suggestion... by wikinerd · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Why not actually enter the GPU market?

    And do you really want a single company controlling not only the CPU market but also the GPU, wireless, and what else markets? Doesn't this sound like giving too much power to a single manufacturer?

    I think AMD-ATI will soon satisfy GNU/Linux and BSD users. But even if they don't you can always support projects that seek to produce open graphics hardware.