[glecedric]

Before you owned a nice full-featured i9 proc. You could go on Ebay and sell it for all its power.

Tomorrow, you buy your new shiny basic i10 proc. You then pay extra to unlock the fast multiply for our games, the fast simd for you AI and the upgrade for 4K decoding. After a while, you decide to sell on Ebay. Well your nice shiny software defined features are now worthless. Well not for Intel which has the opportunity to sell the same stuff twice or more.

What would be incoherent is for Intel to not juice this technology even more. Why not have a limited pool of licenses and let people compete for them monthly ?.

The problem is that the boundary of ownership is getting shifted, and by the look of if the consumer will loose.