commented:
Has Intel forgotten that they need to compete with the rest of the
world, and not just with their "business" products like Xeon?
I get it that when AVX-512 took a much larger percentage of gates and
generated so much extra heat that the CPU had to be throttled, it made
sense to have products with AVX-512 and products without. These days,
AMD has a full 512 bit wide implementation that can run at full speed,
and Intel can't even give us a double pumped 256 implementation for
compatibility?
This by itself isn't entirely unexpected from Intel. They're famously
good at continuing down a bad path much, much longer than makes sense.
But on a 52 core, high end CPU, this makes no sense.
"I want the expensive, premium Intel CPU that's going to make my air
conditioning work extra hard when I push it, but no, it's perfectly
fine if there's no AVX-512" doesn't seem like what I'd expect from
consumers.

  commented:
“Why would I invest in Intel products/chips at any price point when I
don’t think they’ll be around in five or ten years?” is my question.
Like, consumer electronics like laptops or OEM PCs, sure, but I
wouldn’t consider them for a custom built PC because I’d be stuck with
their motherboard for a while.
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