By: anonymou5 (no.delete@this.spam.com), January 29, 2023 2:49 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Björn Ragnar Björnsson (bjorn.ragnar.delete@this.gmail.com) on January 28, 2023 9:41 pm wrote:
> me (me.delete@this.me.com) on January 28, 2023 6:43 pm wrote:
> > > I would like to watch Pat Gelsinger try to justify Intel On Demand in a congressional hearing.
> >
> > The point of it is to reduce the number of SKUs Intel needs.
> > Mission failed I guess given that there's like 50.
>
> We've all heard/read the shtick about the enormous effort and work that goes into validating server class processors.
> Yes? Let's assume for the sake of discussion that, that's all "god's" honest truth. Who here is going to tell
> me that Intel's "On Demand" does anything other than make such validation substantially more burdensome, time
> consuming and expensive? Yes, above and beyond any possible reduction in SKUs? Ok, I'll listen.
>
> I would point those considering responding to take a gander at Intel's TSX and SGX.
>
> So, is Intel "On Demand" a sell for the company? I seriously doubt it, it may even call into question
> validation of any of the "soft" upgradeable processors. IBM did this sort of thing half a century
> ago already (when IBM was effectively a monopoly), but things were ever so much simpler then.
What makes you think that you are the target customer?
Hint: you're not.
Now, if you purchase and deploy hundreds of thousands or even millions of these things
and your needs in terms of features vary over time -- be it days, weeks, months, years,
or even a decade or more -- then you may want to pay only for what you use. Because at
that scale the pennies saved do add up to meaningful sums.
Just because you didn't ask for this, and you can't imagine that anyone would, doesn't
mean Intel isn't trying to cater to some of their customers who buy a lot more than you
and who happen to understand their needs a lot better than you.
> me (me.delete@this.me.com) on January 28, 2023 6:43 pm wrote:
> > > I would like to watch Pat Gelsinger try to justify Intel On Demand in a congressional hearing.
> >
> > The point of it is to reduce the number of SKUs Intel needs.
> > Mission failed I guess given that there's like 50.
>
> We've all heard/read the shtick about the enormous effort and work that goes into validating server class processors.
> Yes? Let's assume for the sake of discussion that, that's all "god's" honest truth. Who here is going to tell
> me that Intel's "On Demand" does anything other than make such validation substantially more burdensome, time
> consuming and expensive? Yes, above and beyond any possible reduction in SKUs? Ok, I'll listen.
>
> I would point those considering responding to take a gander at Intel's TSX and SGX.
>
> So, is Intel "On Demand" a sell for the company? I seriously doubt it, it may even call into question
> validation of any of the "soft" upgradeable processors. IBM did this sort of thing half a century
> ago already (when IBM was effectively a monopoly), but things were ever so much simpler then.
What makes you think that you are the target customer?
Hint: you're not.
Now, if you purchase and deploy hundreds of thousands or even millions of these things
and your needs in terms of features vary over time -- be it days, weeks, months, years,
or even a decade or more -- then you may want to pay only for what you use. Because at
that scale the pennies saved do add up to meaningful sums.
Just because you didn't ask for this, and you can't imagine that anyone would, doesn't
mean Intel isn't trying to cater to some of their customers who buy a lot more than you
and who happen to understand their needs a lot better than you.
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