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Intel’s Anti-Upgrade Tricks Defeated With Kapton Tape (hackaday.com)
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[–] 42 points 2 years ago (18 children)

They've been pulling this shit since the early days. Similar tricks were employed in the 486 days to swap out chips, and again in the Celeron days. I think they switched to the slot style intentionally to keep selling chips to a point lol

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (13 children)

    me when capitalism

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  • [+] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)
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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    We have open source designs (RISCV also have GPU designs) but we don't have manufacture power open sourced yet

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000498114.pdf

    Soviet Computer Technology: Little Prospect for Catching Up

    We believe that there are many reasons why the Soviets trail the United States in computer technology:

    • The Soviets' centrally-planned economy does not permit adequate flexibility to design or manufacturing changes frequently encountered in computer production; this situation has often resulted in a shortage of critical components

    especially for new products.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Thanks for the link to the unbiased study by... the CIA? Huh. Yeah I trust them.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    The paper was from 1985. Was the CIA correct?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Marginally. The paper analyzes the capabilities as they existed in the 1980s, but doesn't draw strong conclusions as to why that may be. It does demonstrate how reliance on central planning results in inadequaciea when said central planning is not operating well, though.

    The paper doesn't really mention it but the central planning of the USSR was actively reeling from Brezhnev dying, Andropov dying, and Chernenko either dying or about to die at the time the CIA thing was written. So yeah, correct is an accurate if imprecise way to put it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Yeah it’s more a criticism of the ussr in the 80s. Central planning with more tech focus and more democracy would likely not face that specific issue.

    But also there’s room for shit like kanban communism which definitely wouldn’t have these problems

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    IIRC, the slot CPU thing was because they wanted to get the cache closer to the processor, but hadn't integrated it on-die yet. AMD did the same thing with the original Athlon.

    On a related note, Intel's anticompetitive and anti- consumer tactics are why I've been buying AMD since the K6-2.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    They had integrated the L2 on-die before that already with the Pentium Pro on Socket 8. IIRC the problem was the yields were exceptionally low on those Pentium Pros and it was specifically the cache failing. So every chip that had bad cache they had to discard or bin it as a lower spec part. The slot and SECC form factor allowed them to use separate silicon on a larger node by having the cache still be on-package (the SECC board) instead of on-die.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    It's been at least since the "big iron" days.

    Technician comes out to upgrade your mainframe and it consists of installing a jumper to enable the extra features. For only a few million dollars.

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