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Inactive silicon isn't inefficient. And it's not even particularly wasteful to produce. While there are lots of devices the amount of materials in each chip is
by nl 4y ago
Inactive silicon isn't inefficient.
And it's not even particularly wasteful to produce. While there are lots of devices the amount of materials in each chip is incredibly small.
In terms of financial cost the material cost is so low that most chip vendors include features in low end chips that are disabled but shipped anyway.
- moffkalast 4y agoAren't they usually disabled because they don't perform up to spec?
- fauigerzigerk 4y agoThat's an interesting point, but I wonder how the cost structure will change as AI becomes a bigger part of the feature set we expect. The battery is a key part as well. Doing a lot of on-device processing requires a bigger battery and/or more frequent battery replacements.