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Or even just that the chip was designed to fuse these blocks off for the low price options. It's not uncommon for those license agreements to allow disabled bl
by monocasa 5y ago
Or even just that the chip was designed to fuse these blocks off for the low price options. It's not uncommon for those license agreements to allow disabled blocks without the licensing fees.
- brucehoult 5y agoIt saves millions of dollars to not have to do a different mask set, so quite likely. The downside is wasted silicon area and thus per-unit cost, but you've got to make a lot before that bites.