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> What do the vendors gain by this 'land grab'?

One thing is that it could be used to as a venue to pursue new recurring revenue streams.

While not exactly the same thing, I've seen some people joke about intel locking owners from cpu features behind monthly subscriptions.

This kind of exploitation requires disallowing owners from fully controlling their devices in order to be effective. The more control vendors have, the more elaborate and exploitative these schemes can be, and the less likely owners will be able to do anything about it.




Well said. I remember a cheaper model of Sony laptop in which you cannot enable hyperthreading though it had same chipset of an expensive model.




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