It sounds about right. Intel has integration fever. You can only integrate so much on a part before you are limited by one thing or another.
Another thought:
Look at what has been placed on the market w. Intel and more importantly HOW....
When 1366 came out, the $1k 975 sold like any $1k chip would. What hurt sales even more is a bottom of the line 920 that could almost always hit 4+ ghz on AIR. Most likely, that is not what Intel had in mind.
Now fast forward to the i7 6-core series.... Intel dropped the 980x. Just the 980x. I'm pretty sure the silicon was there to unleash any number of locked cpu's, but once bitten... The 980x sold very well. If you leave no choice, the locked monsters will sell better....
The end result.... limit base-clock overclocking, so that unlocked "enthusiast" grade cpu's will sell like they are supposed to. OEM's buy enough locked chips. Intel needs to sell their top dogs to us, just like the mobo and gpu companies do.
Food for thought... (I'm sure I left a lot out... damned caffeine high)
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I think the flux capacitor caused the aeon influx inductors to mis-allign the dylithium crystals during transphotogenic mutation, but that's just because I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night.
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