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Depends on the feature, as far as I can tell. Intel has been known to do entirely custom chips, if the price is right (and realistically, you need lots of volum

Depends on the feature, as far as I can tell. Intel has been known to do entirely custom chips, if the price is right (and realistically, you need lots of volume to be able to justify the setup cost of it).

temac 9y ago
If we are talking about modern processors, I doubt they are going to do custom masks.
klodolph 9y ago
There's no way the price is right for custom Skylake Xeons, especially considering how easy it is to disable features on chips after you make them.