Intel Software Defined Silicon: additional CPU features after license activation

Re:Intel Software Defined Silicon: additional CPU features a... by danieldk on Monday November 22, 2021 @06:59AM (#29305447)

Now, you can complain that ecc should be standard, etc but that's a different discussion. But it's classic economic theory: if Intel can charge some people more for ecc, and charge other people less who don't want it, that is an optimal pricing strategy.

I think people object to this because it's a step towards moving hardware to a licensing/subscription model. Because, why let someone pay for ECC once and not monthly? Unfortunately, once that is normalized, everyone will want to have a piece of the pie.

Talking about ECC specifically: ZFS does not need ECC more than any other filesystem [1]. Secondly, many Ryzen CPUs do have ECC support.

[1] From the horse's mouth (one of the founders of ZFS at Sun): https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1235679&p=...

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Re:Intel Software Defined Silicon: additional CPU features a... by qeternity on Monday November 22, 2021 @07:07AM (#29305496)

> Talking about ECC specifically: ZFS does not need ECC more than any other filesystem [1]. Secondly, many Ryzen CPUs do have ECC support.

Thanks for this. Yeah I know ecc is not required any more or less and ultimately I switched to AMD for this very reason (despite my comments in this thread, I am not a fan of Intel and own no Intel hardware - only Apple silicon and AMD).

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