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>Make blowing eFuses in devices illegal. Do you mean before or after manufacturing? Afterwards, I agree. Before, no way: that's how most modern CPUs work. T
by shiroiushi 2y ago
>Make blowing eFuses in devices illegal.
Do you mean before or after manufacturing? Afterwards, I agree. Before, no way: that's how most modern CPUs work. They put a bunch of crap on the chip and make them all the same way, but due to defects, different chips have different parts that don't work, so they blow efuses inside the chip to disable the broken parts, and then sell the chip as the variant that doesn't include that function.
- ssl-3 2y agoIDK. I'd kind of like it if manufacturers would stop selling me V-12-shaped engines that can only be run as inline-4s, too. (No, that's not a thing. But I'm not sure what qualitative differences might exist, and which would actually survive debate, betwixt a fully-built silicon chip with parts disabled forever and a fully-built engine assembly with parts disabled forever.)
- EvanAnderson 2y ago> Do you mean before or after manufacturing? After the sale-- that's why I qualified who the device belongs to in my post. Before the sale it belongs to the manufacturer and they can do whatever they want to it.