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Re:How Intel Makes a Chip by hart_russell on Saturday June 11, 2016 @02:20PM (#11884599)
It's called an ASIC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific_integrate...

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Re:How Intel Makes a Chip by turbohedgehog on Saturday June 11, 2016 @02:27PM (#11884640)
Yeah, I know what ASICs are, I just hadn't heard of large companies getting their own IP inserted into Intel's chips for their own use.
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Re:How Intel Makes a Chip by nickpsecurity on Saturday June 11, 2016 @06:44PM (#11885731)
Look up AMD Semi-Custom Design. Should get some news articles on where they got this started in x86. Became big business that Intel got into, too.
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Re:How Intel Makes a Chip by aab0 on Saturday June 11, 2016 @03:10PM (#11884835)
Normally when you think of an ASIC, you think of a single chip custom-designed for a single customer/buyer. You don't think of a single chip with multiple totally different functions and designs consolidated onto it, which get enabled only if they're shipped to the particular customer who requested that particular function. This is like the CPU/GPU core stuff but on steroids - not just 1 or 2 cores disabled to do yield management and price discrimination, but entire processors.
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