[welterde]

There is plenty of space to the bottom though.. Intel at least publishes datasheets, technical documentation, etc. without requiring signing a NDA for most of their chips..

So in my books they still do quite a bit better than Broadcom, Realtek, etc.

[userbinator]

I agree, although Intel is still not as open as they were back in the e.g. 8086 days - stuff related to the BIOS/memory controller init sequence is still AFAIK requiring NDA.

Better than AMD, at least - just try finding the pinout of socket AM2, which was released over 7 years ago.