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Fully-functioning silicon being wasted on paywalled features. When there's a semiconductor shortage. It's a greedy and wasteful idea in any day and age, but rig
by ryukoposting 5y ago
Fully-functioning silicon being wasted on paywalled features. When there's a semiconductor shortage. It's a greedy and wasteful idea in any day and age, but right now it comes off as tone-deaf, too.
- notriddle 5y agoThe semiconductor shortage is caused by shipping bottlenecks, not raw materials.
- colejohnson66 5y agoCPU binning (with fuses) already wastes “good” silicon. An i3 is just an i7 that wasn’t as good and had some features disabled. See also: the “silicon lottery” for more info. It’s been this way since the beginning. All this is doing is replacing unrepairable fuses with ones that can be disabled after the fact. Theoretically, this is just giving you access to the features that would’ve been permanently fused off, but still good. Is it scummy? Yes. But is it wasting any more silicon than before? No.