This seems like one of those (Intel) technologies that will require mass adoption by developers in order to gain momentum. Otherwise AMD will swoop in with their (much better) version of it. At that point either AMD’s will survive and Intel will eventually be forced to adopt it or (more likely) neither will survive.
I think we all agree that competition is a good thing in the industry, but sometimes if you do not make your new feature as easy and appealing as possible for devs to support, they’re just not going to bother.
AMDs better version of it with their ecores what?
This software utilizes the hybrid architecture.
Amd actually kinda has ecores now with their low cache chiplets for compute density. There is also the hybrid ones with x3d, so I guess 3 tiers of cache performance.
“I asked them is there a technical reason for why 12th and 13th gen parts aren’t supported and if not will they be included in the future? Their response to that question was as follows: Intel has no plans to support prior generations of products with application optimization. That’s a really garbage response to be perfectly blunt about it.”
This APO feature will die in obscurity since Intel will realize 14th gen is not being adopted and unless they want a repeat of XeSS, they will cut their losses and decide not to invest resources into a feature that barely anyone uses.
They could just keep support it moving forward as long as they are willing to have some initial “tail” on adoption. Not too long from now, the 14th gen chips will be the old ones and people will be buying further ones as “cutting edge”.
Bringing the feature to 12th and 13th gen CPUs would increase immediate adoption but also could increase the tail on when those users upgrade. If this feature is worthwhile anyway, it WOULD contribute to people currently on 12 and 13 gen CPUs to upgrade down the line through forced obsolescence: it would be one more feature separating the 14th+ gens from older ones, not just the 14th gen.
All in all, Intel’s incentive is against making the older CPUs perform better and last longer.
Consumers should switch to an AMD proc (ignoring whatever problems AND has themselves) when upgrading next, only way to show that forced obsolescence won’t fly.