Gideon
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No dog in this fight, but if I were spitballing, I'd say Intel not soldering on a lot of chips was because they had no real competition. Save a little $. If it means slightly lower clockspeeds, who cares? The competition is miles behind anyway, what difference does it make? AMD, on the other hand, needed to do it, to get maximum potential out of their design to claw back to competitiveness. Now that AMD is back in the game, even if still somewhat behind in some metrics, Intel ought to consider soldering again. But I imagine the beancounters probably got used to the savings and extra profits, so it's not so easy to convince them.
Intel is ran by accountants and AMD is ran by a engineer and thus why you get the choices by those companies. A accountant looks for ways to make more money or save it. A engineer looks for ways to make their product better and damn the costs. Somewhere in the middle is best.