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Re:Performance variation in ‘identical’ processors by rwem on Sunday January 05, 2020 @08:16PM (#21965622)
Power limits have the same problem, don't they? Except it's maybe worse because you get the product of the error terms for Icc and Vcc?
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Re:Performance variation in ‘identical’ processors by mlyle on Sunday January 05, 2020 @09:39PM (#21965982)
Thermal diodes on dies have a reasonable error.

Voltages and currents are easy to measure relatively precisely.

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