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Re:Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone by sofixa on Sunday February 26, 2023 @04:09AM (#34944151)
> Honestly I wish they'd gone a step further and required ECC support.

That's a non-starter because Intel upsell ECC as an "enterprise"/"prosumer" feature and regular, non-high-end/workstation/server processors don't support ECC. Sadly Intel is still the CPU market leader, so that would have meant Win11 not being able to run on most existing hardware at launch.

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Re:Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone by ClumsyPilot on Sunday February 26, 2023 @08:41AM (#34945458)
Well it would mean a serious kick in the rear for Intel, and delay window 11 adoption. I think Microsoft could do it, but they'd piss off a lot of people.
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Re:Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone by cptskippy on Sunday February 26, 2023 @01:55PM (#34948223)
Yes, how different are Intel's consumer CPUs from their Enterprise? Is ECC disabled physically in their CPUs or is it simply a software limitation?

AMD's CPUs have ECC support but the motherboard manufacturers don't support it.

Intel has been shipping TPMs in CPUs for a while. That begs the question, is Intel dictating requirements to Microsoft or is Microsoft dictating them to Intel?

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