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Yep, it’s standard practice. The old AMD tri-core chips for example were all physically four cores with a (usually) broken one disabled. Modern AMD chips use mu

Yep, it’s standard practice. The old AMD tri-core chips for example were all physically four cores with a (usually) broken one disabled. Modern AMD chips use multiple chiplets on a single board to extend yields.

happycube 7y ago
... and some of the new Epyc chips use only two cores per die out of eight. Customers still come out ahead since those chips have far more cache than a chip with 2 fully enabled 8 core dies.