Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can already do

[NJ5]

Squilliam said:

NJ5 said:

It's not the same thing as paid DLC which is already on the disc, since in that case you are paying for the development of the DLC (putting it on the disc or not doesn't increase the costs).

In this case, the real cost is in manufacturing the hardware, which means part of the chip you buy is wasted even though it's working perfectly well.

It just all seems a bit dodgy and cheap from Intel's part, I don't really like it.

They have always disabled parts of chips when they have worked. The difference here is you can pay to unlock them.

Yes but they had to do that in order to meet demand of lower priced chips (otherwise it only happened if the amount of defective chips was low). Now they will do it sistematically and on every chip they make.

In any case, Intel's chips (for the most part) already didn't have the best value for money, and I doubt this will make it much better so for my own purchases I don't really care. People who care about the Intel brand name can continue buying their chips which will keep AMD's prices lower for me :P