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Intel Kills a Top-of-the-Line Processor
itwbennett writes: In June of this year, Intel announced a processor branded as Broadwell-C. Now, the company has confirmed that the part was cancelled but would not give an official reason. Why did Intel kill the Broadwell-C? ITworld's Andy Patrizio speculates that it's a 'combination of increased cost, lower yield and potential product cannibalization' — cannibalization of the company's newly-launched Skylake processor, which the Broadwell-C outperformed.
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The large cloud providers have already shifted to "consumer" hard drives to save money, knowing that their failure rates will be more than compensated for by lower unit costs.
Consumer drives do NOT have higher failure rates. The myth that "enterprise" drives are more reliable has been debunked by research done by Backblaze and Google.
Benchmarks of Skylake i7-6700K vs Broadwell i7-5775C show the Skylake CPU to be faster. Cheaper too. The Broadwell chip can perform better on some OpenCL tasks due to the Iris Pro integrated GPU, but non-GPU tasks handled by integer and floating point units, cryptography and media extensions are always faster on the Skylake CPU. The "which the Broadwell-C outperformed" part is stupid sour grapes from an unhappy little malcontent.
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It's called Intel vPro technology, which lets you run a hardware session of VLC from the BIOS, on the wall side of the power control. It's pretty impressive shit for enterprise but you can do a whole lot more with it obviously.
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At one time the open software community was proud of porting their software to every hardware platform. Now people don't even know or care that there are alternatives to x86/x64 architecture. Nor do they know about the days when hardware shipped crippled, unless you paid the upgrade cost to remove a jumper. I fear that those days are returning.
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Intel responded to Anandtech's inquiry into the killing of the chip line and denies that it is dead and in fact is wondering where the bad information has come from:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9639/the-death-of-intels-broadwell-is-greatly-exaggerated-socketed-broadwell-continues
We were all warned a long time ago that MS products sucked, remember the Magic 8 Ball said, "Outlook not so good"
It isn't news because it's pure speculation. There's no support for the idea Intel killed it for nefarious monopolist (as if Intel were a monopoly) reasons. If they were really playing those kinds of games they would never have greenlighted the project to start with. It's far more likely either the project wasn't meeting expectations or they have some nearly-finished technology they want to incorporate into the next top-of-the-line part.
They didn't, IT World got it wrong.