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Re:Goodbye, Motherboard. Hello, Silicon-Interconnect Fabric by nine_k on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @09:41PM (#21077385)
Big CPUs / GPUs already have physical redundancy, and a way to cut / rewire a limited amount of faulty parts by laser etching in the die, prior to packaging.
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Re:Goodbye, Motherboard. Hello, Silicon-Interconnect Fabric by monocasa on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @11:25PM (#21077884)
Cell processors are interesting because they do quite a bit of binning on a user facing SPI slave. You shift a thousand or so bit payload into it from a support/binrg up processor that tells it which pieces are disabled, how the PLLs are configured, etc.

Hacked PS3s could reenable the binned off 8th SPE for instance.

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