Naming is hard, it's even harder when marketing is involved.
Does Intel seriously need all these different SKUs? Wouldn't there be an argument to simplifying their product line up.
Does Intel seriously need all these different SKUs? Wouldn't there be an argument to simplifying their product line up.
I don’t know much about regulations. What stopped Intel from dropping prices the moment Ryzen was available in the market? It isn’t like Intel hardware wasn’t good enough. It was just way massively overpriced. Four ish years in we are starting to see sales in the latest generation Intel processors.
What prevented them from doing this sooner?
I would have trusted Intel to know what they were doing in 2015 with market segmentation. Not anymore.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...
Other than from a purely sales driven perspective, wouldn't it make more sense to simply allow the customers, OEMs, motherboard manufacturer and so on, simply control the features from the BIOS/EFI?
Fun fact: It's known that some very large customers like Google ask Intel to implement particular special features. These features are present in the chips us regular folk can buy, but fused off (and shrouded in some secrecy of course).
They probably could have gone with 9...
An extension of the 6,7,8 size/form factor but on newer chipsets
And they skipped 9 anyway