Intel updates mysterious ‘software-defined silicon’ code in the Linux kernel

Re:Intel updates mysterious ‘software-defined silicon’ code ... by ethbr0 on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @10:36AM (#29486007)

Isn't this the same as SaaS thinking, albeit in the hardware era?

For the more common story of IBM enabling present but disabled memory, they couldn't magically teleport a new memory board into your mainframe. But they could ship your mainframe with extra, verified but disabled memory.

Customer UX for memory upgrades then changes from "Wait for it to ship, etc" to "We'll have it done tonight."

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Re:Intel updates mysterious ‘software-defined silicon’ code ... by seanhunter on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @11:13AM (#29486523)

Yes indeed. These kind of things afflict enterprise IT all the time.

I used to run b2c teams which dealt with big banks. One bank's IT department used to bill internally for data center costs using RAM as a proxy for energy usage. A big spark cluster was purchased for the project I worked on and the minimum RAM for the spec of machine that was "standard" was 128MB, so to "save costs" they had the data center guy take out half the memory in every machine before racking it up. :-(

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