Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake review: Is the desktop CPU dead?

Re:Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake review: Is the desktop CPU ... by dragontamer on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @02:40PM (#13312311)

AMD's Tricore vs Quadcore... something (I think Phentoms??) were definitely this. Some Tricores were able to turn into quad-cores with some firmware hacking.

The IBM-Cell in the PS3 was a different approach to the same problem. The Cell was specified as 7-SPUs and 1-CPU, but in actuality... the manufacturing process made 8-SPUs and 1-CPU.

IBM assumed that one of the SPUs would fail during manufacturing, so they only promised to deliver 7 of them per PS3.

You can literally see the 8 SPUs: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Cell-Pro...

There's lots of ways to approach the problem. Manufacturing is an imperfect process: not everything is made identically. So the manufacturers have to figure out how to test for differences and... if necessary... sell the same "manufactured" chip in different bins.

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Re:Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake review: Is the desktop CPU ... by Fnoord on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @04:24PM (#13313249)

> AMD's Tricore vs Quadcore... something (I think Phentoms??)

Phenom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Phenom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenom_II

Not all the hardware of Cell on PS3 was available if you run the official Linux port. Which was later blatantly removed.

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Re:Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake review: Is the desktop CPU ... by legodt on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @04:20PM (#13313210)

Thanks for taking the time to go further on this and link that image, very cool stuff.

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