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A main use is probably core count. AKA sell parts for a lower cost with a low core count, and when people need more performance, let them turn the additional c
by mlyle 5y ago
A main use is probably core count.
AKA sell parts for a lower cost with a low core count, and when people need more performance, let them turn the additional cores on. IBM has had this model on the mainframe for quite some time.
Intel gets the benefits of fewer valuable physical SKUs to manage inventory of at distributors... and of very high margin revenue later.
- fomine3 5y agoIIRC Intel did almost same thing at around 2011.
- toast0 5y agoI mean... that feels scummy, but on the other hand, when they've got a mask that has N cores and the yield is good, they fuse off working cores to get the lower core SKUs the market wants. There may be many customers that the IBM model works for. It used to be you could do some fiddling around and get disabled cores undisabled to see if they were disabled for good reasons or not...