[geeks] Dual-core Celerons? For Schizzle!

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 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?

That's sick-and-twisted and a like it.

Peace...  Sridhar