Intel has patented a technology to stop people from overclocking its processors, Ah, nothing like treating your customers like crooks, AKA answering a demand-signal with a barbed-wire fence.
It claims to detect and deter overclocking of a signal for microprocessors which includes a detection circuit and a prevention circuit, which limits or reduces the performance of the processor when the circuit detects an overclocked signal.
There's a list of 30 different features implemented in the patent.
Most processors, explains the patent, can be clocked at frequencies much greater than the marked frequencies, and that could mean distributors and/or resellers remarking chips at higher frequencies and then selling them at higher prices.
Right — in order to stop a minority, illegal activity, we'll screw the majority of our law-abiding customers by selling them a more expensive product that does less.
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