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I've seen that sort of dongle business before with storage as well.Some SAS RAID adapters require them to unlock certain premium features )the main one that I've seen being SSD caching)It's a shame Intel seems to be going even more all in with their market segmentation. With Intel's reaction to Ryzen and Threadripper being to slash prices on their own HEDT line maybe in a year or two AMD offering SMT on their entire product line not cutting PCIe lanes out of their low cost parts, and letting Threadripper and Epyc share the same platform (at least as far as we know), maybe we can hope that Intel might follow suit and relax their artificial restraints a bit.You mean like how various mainboard manufacturers have unlocked non-K processors through their BIOS only to have Intel update their CPU firmware to again disable it?
I've seen that sort of dongle business before with storage as well.
Some SAS RAID adapters require them to unlock certain premium features )the main one that I've seen being SSD caching)
It's a shame Intel seems to be going even more all in with their market segmentation. With Intel's reaction to Ryzen and Threadripper being to slash prices on their own HEDT line maybe in a year or two AMD offering SMT on their entire product line not cutting PCIe lanes out of their low cost parts, and letting Threadripper and Epyc share the same platform (at least as far as we know), maybe we can hope that Intel might follow suit and relax their artificial restraints a bit.
You mean like how various mainboard manufacturers have unlocked non-K processors through their BIOS only to have Intel update their CPU firmware to again disable it?
