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Roughly linear pricing per core? What is this wizardry?

• DoofusOfDeath 8y ago
  > Roughly linear pricing per core? What is this wizardry? It's called "marketing", and it's definitely not limited by the laws of physics as we know them. You too can learn the ways of marketing, but it comes at a very steep price: your eternal soul. (JK, that's sales.)
  • montalbano 8y ago
    I think the modularity of the manufacturing process helps too.
    • geezerjay 8y ago
      Modularity helps cutting production costs, but that's just a lower bound. Prices are set based on marketing strategies and on how much the company is able to get for a product.
      • snovv_crash 8y ago
        With a monolithic die that lower bound is not linear though: the bigger the die, the higher a chance of defects and the rarer the parts that don't need to have sections fused off. With a modular design the lower bound is, indeed, linear, allowing AMD to severely undercut Intel.