Thoughts on software-defined silicon

> Except that you can undercut Intel and sell Ryzen 7 5800X for $299 and immediately crush Intel.

Why would you want to crush Intel in the lower-end market segment where (per the economy seat analogy) their profit margin is approximately zero? The production cost of your 8-core chip will be similar to their 8-core-with-2-perfectly-good-ones-disabled chip, so you'll make no profit either. And now you can't do any market segmentation yourself, because you're already selling your most powerful chip for no profit. That seems much worse than copying Intel's segmentation strategy and getting a small share of high-margin segments.