Intel plans to deliberately limit Sandy Bridge overclocking

[Drwho?]

Francois:
This isn't just to you but to all companies.
ALL of you want to hide the numbers till the day the parts release.
I think your all wrong in your thinking.
IF it's a great part then shout it to the world.
Show it,tout it,say to the world: "Beat this you suns a biatches"
Oh, did I say I'm a sort of in your face type of guy?

Intel is a very open company, when we include new improvements, we always take time to explain to external experts like the excellent David Kanter how we archived those speed and cool tricks. If we do that too early, it actually allow our competitors to catch up faster, decreasing the return on investment of our Research and Dev ... This can actually cause you to sell your fabs if you keep doing it ...
Fortunatly, the business guys at Intel know all of this, In French , we say "You don t teach a old Monkey for to make grins ..."
It is important to do not get your competitor guessing your next moves, while it is important to intel to be predictable for its partners and people working with our hardware and developping for the PC ...
I am not involve into those decisions, but I understand the smartness behind it, and I get trained every year to respect the law, and do it the right way.

I just hope that explaining this to you guys does not bore you, I hope it is interesting to you to understand what we do. (Not because we don t like you, we just protect our R&D investments , being copied too early cost $)

DrWho?
(My personal view on the thing)