On 22/03/15 10:17, Rick Moen wrote:
I'm confounded by that. What's going on?
I'm aware there's a small irony in my posting that question from Silicon Valley, where I can ride my bicycle past Intel and AMD headquarters complexes by pedaling 25km down the road. But we're here and the question's been on my mind -- and I'm nobody's idea of a hardware engineer. (And it's not like I could knock on their doors and demand an answer, come to think of that.)
Why wouldn't there be Beema or Mullins-compatible motherboards with at least as high RAM capacity as their Kabini predecessors a year earlier, and instead capacity declined by a factor of four? Is it because AMD is conceding the market for anything bigger than a smartphone or low-end tablet to Intel, or alternatively that few OEMs will any longer pay even small change above the cost of a low-end ARM chip, outside of the colo server market? That would be sad.
I am quite certain that the reasons for that are economic, you have said it yourself, the main component responsible for board longevity is ram capacity... Robert