OH Great A tri core chip that should have been a quad core but wouldn't work..... AMD's sorting of there chips to 'increase yield' seems to be just an excuse to punt there '5hit that wouldn't work' onto some other sucker...... Sorry AMD you had the opportunity to kick Intel in the nuts.... but you messed it up proper!
Actually, this is a move that makes sense considering AMD's move to acquire ATI.
ATI once did the same thing (and may still for all I know) with their "high end" video cards. If the high end card failed to pass QA, but with some features disabled passed QA as a lower end card, they would re-badge that card and sell it off (I think this happened a lot in the 9600 series).
I don't know if ATI still does this anymore since I switched to Nvidia (8800gt Alpha Dog FTW!!!), but this recycling strategy might actually help ATI out of its current rut.
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OH Great
A tri core chip that should have been a quad core but wouldn't work..... AMD's sorting of there chips to 'increase yield' seems to be just an excuse to punt there '5hit that wouldn't work' onto some other sucker...... Sorry AMD you had the opportunity to kick Intel in the nuts.... but you messed it up proper!
Actually, this is a move that makes sense considering AMD's move to acquire ATI.
ATI once did the same thing (and may still for all I know) with their "high end" video cards. If the high end card failed to pass QA, but with some features disabled passed QA as a lower end card, they would re-badge that card and sell it off (I think this happened a lot in the 9600 series).
I don't know if ATI still does this anymore since I switched to Nvidia (8800gt Alpha Dog FTW!!!), but this recycling strategy might actually help ATI out of its current rut.