SOURCES SAID that a plan Intel implemented which means third party fan makers have to pay for validation, has the smaller manufacturers boiling with fury. At a meeting in Taiwan last year, Intel introduced the plan to the makers of cooling devices which requires them to submit their designs to a third party service for validation.
But the cost of designing the specifications and of submitting them for validation has the smaller manufacturers grumbling, the sources said. Cooling devices for CPUs are becoming more sophisticated and complex to deal with the heat generated by modern microprocessors, and the plan was introduced by Intel with good intentions. But, as Samuel Johnson apparently didn"t say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The up-front cost of validating a fan design through the third party can be as much as $3,000, according to INQ sources, and that doesn"t include the R&D work and the specs that need to be submitted.
Intel is hosting another fiery fest this year at which it will have to listen to its fan makers whirring loudly about the charges