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Yes. It’s called the silicon lottery.
by colejohnson66 2y ago
Yes. It’s called the silicon lottery.
- account42 2y agoSilicon lottery was when you as a customer could get dies of varying degrees, some of which could be clocked higher than others. For the manufacturer it's not a lottery at all because the scales make the yields for various bins mostly predictable. Binning also means that you as a customer are much less likely to get a chip that is significantly better than specced although it still happens when chips sold as a lower bin for market segmentation purposes.