Reply to post: Re: 80286

AMD sued: Number of Bulldozer cores in its chips is a lie, allegedly

paulc

Re: 80286

back in them days, when testing the chips, if the co-processor was wonky, it was disabled and the chip was sold as an SX chip, if the main processor was wonky, the main processor was disabled and the chip sold as a co-processor... only if both bits worked was the chip sold as a fully functioning unit at correspondingly higher price...

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