Thoughts on software-defined silicon

That makes economic sense when the silicon is broken, and already routinely used with clock speeds or (in the embedded realm) on-die Flash memory.

Selling perfectly working CPUs at a bargain and then charge for the "upgrade" is a slightly different kettle of fish, and frankly I can't contribute much to that discussion beyond "don't like it and will go to some pains not to use CPUs with this kind of anti-feature".

The non-turnoff-able IME is bad enough.