On 15/08/2017 at 05:13, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > FYI Many big companies get intel to include classified instruction > sets to give them some kind of competitive edge. > > I can't find the link but it was in a bloomberg article about xeon CPU's.
Maybe it's this piece: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-09/how-intel-makes-a-chip Another way to make a chip faster is to add special circuits that only do one thing, but do it extremely quickly. Roughly 25 percent of the E5’s circuits are specialized for, among other tasks, compressing video and encrypting data. There are other special circuits on the E5, but Intel can’t talk about those because they’re created for its largest customers, the so-called Super 7: Google <http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-06/google-taps-ibm-rackspace-to-dent-intel-s-hold-on-server-chips>, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent. Those companies buy—and often assemble for themselves—Xeon-powered servers by the hundreds of thousands. If you buy an off-the-shelf Xeon server from Dell or HP, the Xeon inside will contain technology that’s off-limits to you. “We’ll integrate [a cloud customer’s] unique feature into the product, as long as it doesn’t make the die so much bigger that it becomes a cost burden for everyone else,” says Bryant. “When we ship it to Customer A, he’ll see it. Customer B has no idea that feature is there.” -- Alessandro Selli <alessandrose...@linux.com> Tel. 3701355486 VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave PGP/GPG key: B7FD89FD
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