Funnily enough that seems very similar to "cpu binning" in which sections of a cpu are disabled based on stress testing so you end up with different models but

Funnily enough that seems very similar to "cpu binning" in which sections of a cpu are disabled based on stress testing so you end up with different models but the same underlaying hardware. So of course a pointy-haired boss found out about it and you end up with stupid stuff like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Upgrade_Service https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Upgrade_Service