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Re:Tesla flips a switch to increase the range of some cars i... by timgebrally on Saturday September 09, 2017 @09:51PM (#15210093)
Perhaps it's like what Sony did with the PS3 a long time ago: they manufactured it with an eight-core processor but only allowed access to seven of them. The manufacturing yields were really low at launch so they manufactured an eight-core and played the odds that they'd be able to fix the yields later.
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Re:Tesla flips a switch to increase the range of some cars i... by chadcatlett on Saturday September 09, 2017 @10:42PM (#15210287)
The PS3 had one PPE core, and eight SPE cores. One SPE was disabled for yield purposes and of the remaining seven only six were available for usage by end developers.
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