I see this a lot but I really don’t think it was/is that simplistic.
It’s added complexity and cost for something that rarely would benefit most consumers. Now, you can argue that the complexity and cost is a nonissue on modern setups and I would probably agree.
But Intel has long had desktop grade hardware with ECC support. The 440GX chipset supported ECC and I ran a Dell GX1 SFF with 768MB of ECC PC100 for yeeeears with a 450 MHz P3 and later upgraded to 1.4ghz tualatin-256 via a slotket adapter.
The 440HX /socket 7/ chipset supported ECC. And that’s a Pentium 1 chipset.
The 440BX/GX and 450NX supported ECC and that’s with desktop pentium 2 and 3 chips.
The 820/820E/840 supported ECC with desktop celeron and pentium2/3 chips
845/845e/850/850e/860 pentium4 chipsets support ECC
875/e7205/e7221/e7230 did with desktop pentium 4 and pentium d chips
925/925xe/955x/975x did with desktop pentium 4/pentium d/core 2
It’s more sparse now that they moved to the IMC, granted. But Intel has long had multiple chipsets per generation with ECC support for desktop grade hardware.
It’s added complexity and cost for something that rarely would benefit most consumers. Now, you can argue that the complexity and cost is a nonissue on modern setups and I would probably agree.
But Intel has long had desktop grade hardware with ECC support. The 440GX chipset supported ECC and I ran a Dell GX1 SFF with 768MB of ECC PC100 for yeeeears with a 450 MHz P3 and later upgraded to 1.4ghz tualatin-256 via a slotket adapter.
The 440HX /socket 7/ chipset supported ECC. And that’s a Pentium 1 chipset.
The 440BX/GX and 450NX supported ECC and that’s with desktop pentium 2 and 3 chips.
The 820/820E/840 supported ECC with desktop celeron and pentium2/3 chips
845/845e/850/850e/860 pentium4 chipsets support ECC
875/e7205/e7221/e7230 did with desktop pentium 4 and pentium d chips
925/925xe/955x/975x did with desktop pentium 4/pentium d/core 2
It’s more sparse now that they moved to the IMC, granted. But Intel has long had multiple chipsets per generation with ECC support for desktop grade hardware.