Intel has played people who use desktops, as fools!..Strange because desktop users are the one who got them where they are! Yes, I have a very long memory.
It wasn't really the desktop users that got them there. it was the mobile users and the Pentium M that got them where Intel is. On desktop Pentium 3 and 4 were clobbered by AMD's K7/K8 offering for most part of P3/4 cycles. It was really the Pentium M which is the mobile version of refined P3 that brought a lot of attention to Intel for the battery life and performance it offered. That evolved into Core Duo and then Core 2 Duo which pretty much put the first set of nails into AMD's coffin. AMD isn't dead but isn't anywhere near its glory days of 2003ish in the hey days of K7 and early K8. NOTE late days of K8 were eclipsed by Core 2 Duo's performance.
That only makes sense if your memory only extends back to the Pentium 4 (7th-gen x86) era. Intel became a powerhouse based on the success of their early 8086 and 8088 processors. It's been onward and upward since then, but it's all based on that initial success.
I could not have said it any better. I still remember those articles overclocking the M to performance almost similar to AMDs chips or better performance per watt.
I'm willing to bet that they are leveraging the flexible memory controller technology that they developed in Haswell-EP to provide both DDR3 and DDR4 support. It makes sense for the cost-sensitive embedded market to have a DDR3 option for the time being.
Seeing as Intel has previously limited overclocking, PCI-E lane allocation and eGPU support based on chipset there really is no reason to believe they won't lock CPU features based on chipset again.
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Flash13 - Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - link
Intel has played people who use desktops, as fools!..Strange because desktop users are the one who got them where they are! Yes, I have a very long memory.extide - Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - link
How exactly? Geez.XZerg - Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - link
It wasn't really the desktop users that got them there. it was the mobile users and the Pentium M that got them where Intel is. On desktop Pentium 3 and 4 were clobbered by AMD's K7/K8 offering for most part of P3/4 cycles. It was really the Pentium M which is the mobile version of refined P3 that brought a lot of attention to Intel for the battery life and performance it offered. That evolved into Core Duo and then Core 2 Duo which pretty much put the first set of nails into AMD's coffin. AMD isn't dead but isn't anywhere near its glory days of 2003ish in the hey days of K7 and early K8. NOTE late days of K8 were eclipsed by Core 2 Duo's performance.Flunk - Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - link
That only makes sense if your memory only extends back to the Pentium 4 (7th-gen x86) era. Intel became a powerhouse based on the success of their early 8086 and 8088 processors. It's been onward and upward since then, but it's all based on that initial success.zodiacfml - Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - link
I could not have said it any better. I still remember those articles overclocking the M to performance almost similar to AMDs chips or better performance per watt.mfenn - Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - link
I'm willing to bet that they are leveraging the flexible memory controller technology that they developed in Haswell-EP to provide both DDR3 and DDR4 support. It makes sense for the cost-sensitive embedded market to have a DDR3 option for the time being.The_Assimilator - Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - link
There's no Z-series chipset listed. That's the one that will support DDR4, if any of them are to.techmar - Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - link
The memory controller is integrated on processor itseft. So memory support should not be limited by chipset used.Flunk - Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - link
Hahaha, that's rich.Seeing as Intel has previously limited overclocking, PCI-E lane allocation and eGPU support based on chipset there really is no reason to believe they won't lock CPU features based on chipset again.
Antronman - Sunday, March 1, 2015 - link
Want more than 4GBs of RAM?We're sorry, you need to be using our X99 platform for this much memory.
edwd2 - Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - link
I thought the Desktop Skylake-S are all coming Q3 this year.edwd2 - Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - link
I thought the Desktop Skylake-S are all coming Q3 this year.sascha - Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - link
A new socket again? :P