On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 06:33:13AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > no the reason is: they make a specific batch of the processors, > making it a large batch so that they can tune one of the wafer > manufacturing machines over a period of several months to get it up to > as close to a 100% yield as they can, then stockpile them.
Wasn't the power processor used in Sony's playstations a while back, with something like five or six CPUs and some other thing to coordinate them? I heard they got around the yield problem by making them all with extra processors so they could make a subset of them that happened to work available in the actual delivered machine. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
