New Intel and AMD Chips Will Only Support Windows 10
'Buried in the announcement of the new Kaby Lake (seventh-generation) processors and a rash of incoming notebooks set to use them is the confirmation that they will have a Windows 10 future. Microsoft has been warning people for ages that Kaby Lake will not run on anything older than Windows 10, and it looks like AMD's upcoming Zen chip will be going the same way. Microsoft said, "As new silicon generations are introduced, they will require the latest Windows platform at that time for support. This enables us to focus on deep integration between Windows and the silicon, while maintaining maximum reliability and compatibility with previous generations of platform and silicon." "We are committed to working with Microsoft and our ecosystem partners to help ensure a smooth transition given these changes to Microsoft's Windows support policy," an Intel spokesperson said. "No, Intel will not be updating Win 7/8 drivers for 7th Gen Intel Core [Kaby Lake] per Microsoft's support policy change." An AMD representative was equally neutral. "AMD's processor roadmap is fully aligned with Microsoft's software strategy," AMD chief technical officer Mark Papermaster said, via a company spokeswoman.' -- source: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/09/01/2031247 Or just use a Linux distro flavor of your choice... Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 12:25:11 +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote:
'Buried in the announcement of the new Kaby Lake (seventh-generation) processors and a rash of incoming notebooks set to use them is the confirmation that they will have a Windows 10 future. Microsoft has been warning people for ages that Kaby Lake will not run on anything older than Windows 10...'
-- source: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/09/01/2031247
Or just use a Linux distro flavor of your choice...
Also worth mentioning is that Kaby Lake is a kind of interim chip generation. For many years, Intel has been running a “tick-tock” schedule, where each “tick” took an existing processor design and moved it to a new chip fabrication process, followed by a “tock” that created the next-generation processor design once the new process had become more familiar. But it’s getting harder (not to say more expensive) to keep shrinking those transistors, and falling PC sales haven’t helped. Hence Kaby Lake. Also, one of the new features in these processors is hardware support for 4K video playback, with DRM <http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/08/intel-unveils-kaby-lake-its-first-post-tick-tock-cpu-architecture/>. On the (somewhat) bright side, one commenter here <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/30/intel_core_7th_gen/> points out that the Thunderbolt support allows external hardware to snoop main RAM, opening the possibility of a, ahem, “security hole” that would allow access to unencrypted video...
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