So you mean to tell me they had the technology the whole time to make upgraded modular chips and sell them for pre-existing computer architecture but chose not to because they knew people would pay for the shiny new toys.
There’s a chip crisis and SUDDENLY!!! We’re all able to use new technologies on old computer architectures…
Call it supply and demand but I think that’s fucked up nm which way you look at it.
I read that and then immediately thought to myself, so they just chose not to release upgrades for old architectures and speed released a shit load of new hardware they knew people would pay OTA for.
This whole time they could’ve actually been making old computers better than they are and make it so the consumer didn’t have to spend a fuck load on upgrades but waited till a chip shortage to do it…
It’s almost like planned obsolescence is a well document and viable business strategy.
For…40 years? Demand for older consumer CPUs has dropped to zero over a few years because the new ones are demonstrably more capable and basically the same price. That’s the whole idea behind Moore’s Law. There are niche applications where that hasn’t been true that were mostly filled by recycled hardware or single board computers. But in general people want the more capable device.
There’s a whole conversation to be had about software bloat that that chain enabled but planned obsolescence it ain’t.
The old hardware still works perfectly fine though
These are only “new” chips in a marketing sense.
From a tech standpoint, they’re more or less the same chips that Intel was making for LGA1700 3-4 years ago refreshed with a new name and model number. They may have slight tweaks to the clocks and the core configs, but other than that there’s really nothing new about them. It’s the same silicon that Intel launched back in 2022.
The only reason Intel is doing this is because LGA1700 supports DDR4 and that’s kept the demand for it alive with how expensive DDR5 is now.
It’s all been over blown hype for sometime now. PCI 3 vs 4 vs 5 doesn’t seem to justify the higher prices https://gamersnexus.net/gpus/nvidia-rtx-5090-pcie-50-vs-40-vs-30-x16-scaling-benchmarks#overview-and-differences
My last major “whoa” moment was switching from disk to solid state. Otherwise most upgrades feel like they are marginal improvements for the last decade.
Since I was a wee lad, when the internet was just an idea, to this day, it’s the first time that “innovation” doesn’t go “higher, further, faster!” But the opposite…
I don’t know about you, but I’ve gotten sadly accustomed to tech “innovation” being more about novel ways of squeezing money out of people way more often than “higher, further, faster” or anything that makes our lives easier, more interesting, or more enjoyable.
I mean AMD has been able to reuse sockets for multiple generations of actual new cpus. Intel has just never done it that way.
Turns out new sockets were just to rip you off.
I heard there’s a new board with new architecture which works with DDR3!
If they make a mobo that’ll take at least 64gb of DDR3, and an architecture that’ll use it, I’m interested.
Plenty of old hardware still around for that. Might need to look at server boards if consumer boards didn’t support that much.
Got my hopes up I thought my haswell server was about to get an upgrade. I love that little 4690k.
