• AMD exec describes Threadripper’s dummy dies as ‘basically rocks’
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When does Intel use this to say that Amd's new processors are just glued together rocks
Isn't this standard practice? Do a bunch of binning and when two of the cores don't work properly just turn em off and ship it as the next lower thing down? Doesn't Intel do this?
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;52701283]Isn't this standard practice? Do a bunch of binning and when two of the cores don't work properly just turn em off and ship it as the next lower thing down? Doesn't Intel do this?[/QUOTE] This is exactly how AMD did their previous chips. With phenom chips, some boards could 'unlock' these cores and turn them back on, though it often brought a lot of system instabilities along with it, there's a reason they were turned off in the first place
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