Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS

Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by StillBored on Thursday December 05, 2019 @12:34AM (#21710218)

I wasn't talking about binning, I was talking about when you have binned at a certain level, but the product is sold under its capability because you want to maintain the illusion of scarcity of the better parts.

AKA its a perfect part, but its being sold with a couple cores disabled or at a frequency below whats its capable of.

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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by LegitShady on Thursday December 05, 2019 @04:20AM (#21710989)

You won't even know if it's a perfect part. There is likely a microscopic defect on a part of the cpu they can turn off that disqualified it from being perfect or having a feature of the high end part.

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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by johncolanduoni on Thursday December 05, 2019 @01:53AM (#21710473)

That’s part of binning and is common across manufacturers. There used to be some nvidia chips where you could reprogram the firmware and have a decent chance at getting a quadro for a fraction of the cost.

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