• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    I remember when Intel tried to do this with their chips and people absolutely lost their shit.

    Tesla’s popularity is on such a downtown, people won’t lose their shit but instead just go: “Ah, Musk is doing dumb shit again.”

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      6 months ago

      Tech folks lost their shit. Joe Schmoe consumer arguably didn’t notice. They were just looking at the manufacturer sticker on their palm rest.

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        6 months ago

        I mean, they never stopped, did they? This is what chip binning is and for chips, it makes a lot of economical and even ecological sense (since a chip where the yield is such that only 6/8 cores function properly can be sold as a lower-tier product without issue instead of being scrapped, for example)

        It’s also what made overclocking so popular.

        Unless you and GP are referring to something else, of course. Wouldn’t put it past Intel to be nefarious 😅

    • Longpork3@lemmy.nz
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      6 months ago

      Are you sure you’re not confusing this with the concept of “binning”, which is a pretty standard practice for chips?

      You manufacture to a single spec, expecting there to be defects, then you identify the defective units, group them by their maximum usability and sell the “defective” units as lower end chips. IE, everything with 24-31 functional cores gets the “extra” cores disabled and shipped as a 24 core, everything with 16-23 functional cores gets shipped as a 16 core, etc