[ponorin]

Intel lately has been throwing everything under the sun to see if it sticks: first the heterogeneous P- and E-Cores, then the silicon-on-silicon packaging, unhinged power profile to the point of system instability, and now embedded RAM. Everything, everything except for a significant architectural improvements.

They are just being desperate. Desperate because they can't crack the code on improving the fundamental architecture. So they are pushing everything else to their limit and bulldozing over consumer choice and repairability in the process.

There's no other explanation. AMD does none of this and still eats Intel for lunch.