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I’ve got news for you about how flash memory and processors are manufactured, binned, and fed out to distinct product lines. The general strategy is to make ev
by madaxe_again 3y ago
I’ve got news for you about how flash memory and processors are manufactured, binned, and fed out to distinct product lines.
The general strategy is to make everything with the same die, and then bin the output based on manufacturing quality, defects, etc.
Quite often, the manufacturing is too good, and therefore perfectly capable hardware is feature-limited in order to fill the lower end product lines.
- michaelt 3y agoAnd plenty of people buying those processors feel it's their right to 'overclock' to get the performance of a more expensive product - In the early 2000s people would even bridge connections on the chips with pencil to reverse multiplier locking.
- berbec 3y agoSlot 1 300A Celeron pencil trick was the best. I lived with that for a while, and then I got a dual socket 370 533 Celerons on the BP6. That was an absolutely insanely overpowered machine for years.