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Former Intel CPU engineer details how internal x86-64 efforts were suppressed prior to AMD64's success (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Intel was all about market segmentation

See also: ECC memory.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sometimes for some reason, there's no limit. Like the cheap i3-8100 can use ECC memory

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

AMD allowed procssors to use ECC memory since Ryzen so the the jig was up.