Re:Experiments with disabling the ME on Sandybridge x230
by yellowapple on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @08:19PM
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> You're only locked in if your personal requirements mandate the smallest lithography process and the highest clock speed.
I'm pretty sure POWER still fulfills requirements for "highest clock speed", not x86/x64. That might be based on outdated information, though; I just recall POWER being the first to hit 5GHz CPU clock speeds even in spite of IBM's lithographic processes lagging behind Intel's.
I'm pretty sure POWER still fulfills requirements for "highest clock speed", not x86/x64. That might be based on outdated information, though; I just recall POWER being the first to hit 5GHz CPU clock speeds even in spite of IBM's lithographic processes lagging behind Intel's.