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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 ge
by 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 agoWith 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.