sometimes it's just a sale/negotiatin tactic
sometimes it's just a sale/negotiatin tactic
Posted Feb 21, 2022 10:35 UTC (Mon) by eliezert (subscriber, #35757)Parent article: Thoughts on software-defined silicon
Over a decade ago I worked for a HW company that had FW support for enabling features by a signed certificate.
On every cycle of the HW, what would eventually happen, is that all vendors who integrate the HW got the company to agree to include "100% attach rate" as part of the cost.
So there weren't really any certs installed by end users, it was (in my opinion) just something sales people can give as part of the negotiation tactics.
I recently looked at a product that includes such HW and to this day it lists these features as optional and enabled by a certificate even though it comes pre-installed and as a user I did not pay anything additional for it.
On every cycle of the HW, what would eventually happen, is that all vendors who integrate the HW got the company to agree to include "100% attach rate" as part of the cost.
So there weren't really any certs installed by end users, it was (in my opinion) just something sales people can give as part of the negotiation tactics.
I recently looked at a product that includes such HW and to this day it lists these features as optional and enabled by a certificate even though it comes pre-installed and as a user I did not pay anything additional for it.