[geeks] Dual-core Celerons? For Schizzle!

[Phil Stracchino]

Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:02:31AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Why not just use a fully-functional processor in the first place....? 
>> This is sort of like a supercharged all-wheel-drive Yugo.
> 
> The 512K-cache Celerons are most likely the 1M non-Celerons where half the
> cache failed QA.
> 
> So, turn defective products into lesser-performing profit.

Actually, speaking of that ...

http://www.news.com/AMD-delays-two-Phenom-chips%2C-moving-others-forward/8301-13579_3-9848525-37.html

(http://b54.net/-zy)

AMD is apparently planning to repackage quad-core processors with minor 
defects on one core and sell them as triple-core processors.  Now ... 
how long do you suppose it'll be before someone comes up with a hack to 
run an OS thread on each core with a two-out-of-three majority-voting 
system for fault-tolerant applications?


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