
In its more than half a century history, Intel has manifested itself, that is, used its technology in many areas of our lives - from children's toys to equipment at stadiums. But only now the company, created in the heyday of The Beatles and Pink Floyd, turned to music. At once we say that this is not about changing the
great Intel
jingle and not about replacing the conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra with artificial intelligence. At this time, the innovations of the company will be heard by all. All interested users of Intel products, especially music lovers - welcome under cat.
As it became known from internal sources, since the beginning of the second quarter, Intel has been actively planning the development of the musical direction, accompanied by its products. It is well known that when you turn on your computer, the BIOS (UEFI) beeps. One short signal usually means that everything is in order - you can work, but a melody - a combination of long and short sounds indicates that something went wrong, and you can find out what exactly (or rather, exactly where) description of the manufacturer BIOS.
This has been the case since the appearance of the
IBM PC XT and has remained unchanged so far, despite the replacement of the BIOS with UEFI. And now, finally, progress has reached such depths.
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All new, upcoming Intel products - processors, chipsets, non-volatile memory modules Optane, both in the form factor of the RAM and SSD; as well as discrete video cards will be able to play polyphonic 24-bit melodies in case of any problems. A specific melody with a duration of up to 16 seconds can be set in a special application - Intel Sound Control, downloaded for free on the Intel website. It is assumed that the application will support both a choice of existing melodies and the ability to load custom ones - for example, cynics will easily be able to install “Slav Girl’s Parting” for problems with the CPU, and pessimists - “I will never see you, I will never forget you” problems with the GPU. And if for ordinary users this feature is just a pleasant entertainment, then for administrators and technicians of server centers it will be a real help in the work.
The first musically gifted product that Intel will launch on the market will be a high-density server designed for installing four second-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Introducing the new server at the Open Compute Project summit, Jason Waxman, vice president of the company, even compared it to a well-known everything, one might even say, a bored musical instrument - this very moment of the presentation is shown on the CDRV.
Following the server, other Intel devices will play in a new way, we will see them later this year.
UPD. Of course, this is an April Fools' post, although it uses a real photo, and all coincidences with reality are not at all accidental.