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Intel Kills a Top-of-the-Line Processor

Posted by timothy on from the they-also-killed-the-electric-car dept.

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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  1. Re:Maybe they found a backdoor by denis-The-menace · · Score: 5, Informative

    FYI: In theory, all newer Intel chips have Backdoors:

    http://libreboot.org/faq/#inte...

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  2. Re:Is this news? by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think it's news because many people feel the Broadwell-C was the better chip and that possibly SkyLake would be eclipsed. The things you can do when you're a monopoly are bad for the customer. I

  3. Re:They don't want Skylake to be fast by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.