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Intel’s Haswell SoC is hiding a secret

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There is a big secret lurking in Intel’s Haswell SoC device that the company doesn’t want out. Better yet the same thing is lurking under the heat spreader on the yet unannounced Broadwell SoC according to SemiAccurate’s sources.

As you might expect, when there is something like this lurking the last thing a company wants is the public to know before launch. Because of this please don’t tell them that you know the truth about Haswell SoC much less Broadwell SoC, it may hurt their feelings. After all, corporations are people too and it wouldn’t be sociable to make them cry in public.
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Anyone have any ideas? Or is it the typical anti Intel/nVidia Charlie Demarjin spouting tripe but happy to charge customers $1000 to read that tripe every year?
 
Is this not an NSA thing?
I remember rumours from a few years ago about super secret spying wizardry hiding in chips.

Hang on, I had some funny tasting haribos with my last oc order :eek:
 
I still think it is something ARM based,considering the "cry" statement. Intel and ARM had a few public side swipes at each other in the past about X86,so integrating an ARM based chip(even a tiny one) would probably be something Intel would not want to advertise.
 
I think the secret is Charlie wants you to pay to read the rest of the article.. I imagine once you pay and can read the full thing, it just amounts to trolling. Do people really pay to view content from such a biased site?

Intel can put whatever secrets they want in their tech, as long as they keep destroying AMD on IPC and power consumption, it's makes no difference I'll keep buying Intel until AMD can compete..

Maybe AMD should be more secretive :P
 
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This thread is nothing about AMD though and good you like certain brands more than others. Plus ARM licensees are what are causing major issues for both Intel and AMD,to the extent that for BT Intel is subsidising them upto $51 each,and AMD hasn't got that kind of money too. If you want to start a flame war,maybe you can start another AMD vs Intel thread.

Moreover,SA bitches and moans about MS,Intel and AMD(more for their CPUs though) at any one time. The only company they don't do it for is ARM.

Its a tech tabloid and people should take it as such. However,they do get things correct more often than people do want to admit,although it is covered in a layer of sarcasm and one could say tech trolling at times. He knows annoying hardware enthusiasts creates discussion about his site,which is good for him.

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Intel is an ARM licensee too.

However,they have not,AFAIK,ever integrated ARM chips into any of their mainstream chips last time I checked. Going by what R400 said a tiny ARM based chip could be used for added functionality independent of the main CPU with little die area penalty.

Even if it is not some sort of NSA based thingy,a ARM chip could be used for other purposes in the background and might be a way of saving power or for security.

Remember the talk is about the SOC versions of Haswell which are a very different animal to what people are using ATM and is for low power.

Most of the Intel vs ARM spat was about power consumption. If they use an ARM chip in their SOC Haswell and Broadwell chips to save power,then that would be something Intel would not want to advertise freely,especially in light of the spat. Even using an ARM chip for anything else would have the same effect.

OTH,it could be what R400 says,and that itself is not something you would want to advertise.
 
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
This thread is nothing about AMD though and good you like certain brands more than others. Plus ARM licensees are what are causing major issues for both Intel and AMD,to the extent that for BT Intel is subsidising them upto $51 each,and AMD hasn't got that kind of money too. If you want to start a flame war,maybe you can start another AMD vs Intel thread.

Moreover,SA bitches and moans about MS,Intel and AMD(more for their CPUs though) at any one time. The only company they don't do it for is ARM.

Its a tech tabloid and people should take it as such. However,they do get things correct more often than people do want to admit,although it is covered in a layer of sarcasm and one could say tech trolling at times. He knows annoying hardware enthusiasts creates discussion about his site,which is good for him.

Edit!

Intel is an ARM licensee too.

However,they have not,AFAIK,ever integrated ARM chips into any of their mainstream chips last time I checked. Going by what R400 said a tiny ARM based chip could be used for added functionality independent of the main CPU with little die area penalty.

Even if it is not some sort of NSA based thingy,a ARM chip could be used for other purposes in the background and might be a way of saving power or for security.

Remember the talk is about the SOC versions of Haswell which are a very different animal to what people are using ATM and is for low power.

Most of the Intel vs ARM spat was about power consumption. If they use an ARM chip in their SOC Haswell and Broadwell chips to save power,then that would be something Intel would not want to advertise freely,especially in light of the spat. Even using an ARM chip for anything else would have the same effect.

OTH,it could be what R400 says,and that itself is not something you would want to advertise.
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People get offended and take it personally because he rags on nVidia more than anyone else, they almost demand that he rags on them all equally, ignoring the fact that nVidia is a slimy company and does slimy things, meaning there's a lot more to rag on them for.

Outside of that, he rags on companies when they deserve it, it just so happens that the others don't do nearly as many slimy things. Intel does, but it's never in a myopic way that could ruin the gaming industry or have a severe negative impact, fortunately few companies are in bed with nVidia now, so it's much less of an issue.
 
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