No APO on Raptor/Alder Lake Refresh, confirms Intel A new video from HardwareUnboxed explains the good and bad things about APO technology. The 14th Gen Core desktop series known as Raptor Lake Refresh featured this technology as one of the biggest additions. But the original Raptor Lake series, not to mention Alder Lake, is not […]
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.