Predicting demand is only really useful if you can tailor your yield function and doing so provides savings. Intel doesn’t choose to make X number of top bin a

Predicting demand is only really useful if you can tailor your yield function and doing so provides savings. Intel doesn’t choose to make X number of top bin and Y number of the next bin, they try to optimize for as much of the top bin as they can manage. A lot of 6 core processors have actually 8 cores, but two of them had flaws so they got disabled. The conclusion of this has been AMDs strategy, where everything from low tier CPUs to server grade use the same design, and products are built after binning the chiplets.