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minus-squareBoscoBearlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·9 months agoI read an article recently that talked about enabling and disabling cores on the fly. I think chip binning is perfectly reasonable.
minus-squarehemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 months agoChip binning is great because it creates less waste, cheaper product and more profit for the manufacturer. Rare case of where everyone seem to win. But there was this case where intel was designing chip that could be sold at lower price and more cores could be unlocked in software for a price. https://www.zdnet.com/article/facepalm-of-the-day-intel-charges-customers-50-to-unlock-cpu-features/
minus-squareBoscoBearlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-29 months agoWhen IBM did this with mainframes it launched Amdahl into existence. His machines were basically the same machine except they were unharnessed.
I read an article recently that talked about enabling and disabling cores on the fly.
I think chip binning is perfectly reasonable.
Chip binning is great because it creates less waste, cheaper product and more profit for the manufacturer. Rare case of where everyone seem to win.
But there was this case where intel was designing chip that could be sold at lower price and more cores could be unlocked in software for a price.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/facepalm-of-the-day-intel-charges-customers-50-to-unlock-cpu-features/
When IBM did this with mainframes it launched Amdahl into existence. His machines were basically the same machine except they were unharnessed.