Comment on AMD refuses to limit cryptocurrency mining: We will not be blocking any workloadparentComments−ttt05yUntil today I was convinced that not breaking your products was just an industry standard.−rrss5ynope, hardware vendors have been introducing artificial restrictions in some products for market segmentation for decadese.g. ECC support in CPUs, mods to turn radeon into firegl / geforce into quadro, fused off cores−mancerayder5y486 DX versus SX, wasn't it? That was my childhood intro.
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Until today I was convinced that not breaking your products was just an industry standard.
nope, hardware vendors have been introducing artificial restrictions in some products for market segmentation for decades
e.g. ECC support in CPUs, mods to turn radeon into firegl / geforce into quadro, fused off cores
486 DX versus SX, wasn't it? That was my childhood intro.