Thoughts on software-defined silicon
Thoughts on software-defined silicon
Posted Feb 19, 2022 8:47 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)In reply to: Thoughts on software-defined silicon by khim
Parent article: Thoughts on software-defined silicon
I had a 3-core AMD a while back (just scrapped it), and I understood that a lot of these chips were actually 4-cores with a core disabled. Especially with a new design, if these things can be disabled by blowing a fuse, surely it makes sense to just disable stuff that fails QA and sell the resulting chip at a lower price point.
Cheers,
Wol
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