Intel Processors to Become OS Locked
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Re: Intel Processors to Become OS Locked
#12Time for a crowd funded OpenSPARC / ARM based CPU semiconductor fab ?
Crowd funding is great for many things, but not for a fab. We're talking >$1 BILLION in capital per plant required just to replicate existing technology (not even to begin innovating). Still, if you can raise $1B in a crowdfund, we'd love to know your secrets!
I doubt that the poster is proposing to build the plant, so much as build the CPU in a plant.
Re: Intel Processors to Become OS Locked
#13Time for a crowd funded OpenSPARC / ARM based CPU semiconductor fab ?
Crowd funding is great for many things, but not for a fab. We're talking >$1 BILLION in capital per plant required just to replicate existing technology (not even to begin innovating). Still, if you can raise $1B in a crowdfund, we'd love to know your secrets!
simple, lets start a government.
Re: Intel Processors to Become OS Locked
#14Lol, this is complete garbage. It is so far from the truth the author must have known they were lying.
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#15Intel's not this stupid... come on.
I agree with you. This doesn't make any sense from a financial perspective for Intel.
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#16Yeah and it is going to be future and hacker proof as well. So I heard!! :)
Re: Intel Processors to Become OS Locked
#17Time for a crowd funded OpenSPARC / ARM based CPU semiconductor fab ?
Crowd funding is great for many things, but not for a fab. We're talking >$1 BILLION in capital per plant required just to replicate existing technology (not even to begin innovating). Still, if you can raise $1B in a crowdfund, we'd love to know your secrets!
You don't need the fab, you hire one of the existing ones to build it for you. nVidia does this for example (and ATI did as well)
You can license the ARM IP from a company as well (I mean, not just the instruction set IP but the actual implementation as well)
Re: Intel Processors to Become OS Locked
#18It would help to review the German article which is what a Google Plus post is linking to which this Soyent article is referencing: http://www.golem.de/news/intel-hooks-im-kernel-sollen-androi... > Im Fall des x86-Android plant Intel unter anderem, Dateioperationen von Virenscannern per Hooks zu ermöglichen. Damit können dann zum Beispiel in Echtzeit nur neue Dateien gescannt werden, ohne dass die Anti-Malware und da…
If I could give it a shot... (Good translation but it looks like you missed a sentence)
> In the case of x86 Android, Intel plans, among other things, to allow file operations to be monitored by virus scanners by way of hooks. Such hooks would allow new files to be scanned, for example, without the Anti-Malware and Operating System having to go through what were, until now, the usual paths over the filesystem.
Re: Intel Processors to Become OS Locked
#19It would help to review the German article which is what a Google Plus post is linking to which this Soyent article is referencing: http://www.golem.de/news/intel-hooks-im-kernel-sollen-androi... > Im Fall des x86-Android plant Intel unter anderem, Dateioperationen von Virenscannern per Hooks zu ermöglichen. Damit können dann zum Beispiel in Echtzeit nur neue Dateien gescannt werden, ohne dass die Anti-Malware und da…
The Golem article actually only writes about the hooks of the Android OS for x86 (I can't find any mention of the processor!) but it also has the example of not allowing modded Android OS at the end of it (translated via Google Translate with minor fixes for clarity attempted by me):
"The Intel manager gave an example for why such safety features, deeply anchored into the operating system are important for Android: In the Intel network only mobile devices with certain versions of Android may use all functions. The Cyanogenmod smartphone would be able to access WLAN but not receive e-mails as such a device would be a security risk."
Re: Intel Processors to Become OS Locked
#20What is with the domain? Are they trying to cash in on the word soylent?
This is one of the Slashdot Replacement sites (the? main one) arising from the "F#^% Beta" movement. They may or may not be called SoylentNews for long, there is some drama surrounding the domain name and a founder/former co-maintainer who has sold the domain name to (who appears to be) a benevolent/benefactor called matt_ from the userbase.