> On 3 Sep 2018, at 11:54, Philipp Stanner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 29.08.2018, 04:09 -0400 schrieb Youness Alaoui: >> If there are more specific questions that you have, ask them and I >> might be able to answer them! > > I might have one: What does stop a motherboard-vendor from just buying > a CPU and implementing it? Which chips, beside the CPU, do you need > from Intel in any case to make the machine work?
As usual, it boils down to money. You also need data from Intel to make a CPU work (microcode, FSP). Creating a chipset, making RAM work etc. can easily cost you hundreds of millions. On top of that, it’s hard to make money off of it, making it double-bad from a capitalistic-commercial perspective. There is a reason you don’t get to choose a chipset anymore; Nvidia and VIA (and others) once were in the business of making chipsets, but not any more. > I always thought of the CPU just as a machine executing code, and > assumed it's possible to use it just as any microcontroller: You can > add the ME-Chipset, but you don't have to. > Well, yes and no. There are plenty of CPU models out there that require specific Intel code to work, some of them cryptographically locking anyone else out. End-users don’t care, and technical users don’t have enough power to do anything about it on the Intel side of things. > Philipp > > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot Regards, John -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
