Re:Silicon Lottery store closing
by acchow on Thursday September 30, 2021 @06:09PM
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This sounds like a company that is very bad at predicting demand. Presumably in 2021, Intel can predict relative demand between its product bins quite accurately?
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Re:Silicon Lottery store closing
by sudosysgen on Thursday September 30, 2021 @06:49PM
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The fact is that the demand for the high end is always much lower than successful chips and they need to have a sizeable gap to justify those chips.
Also yields and bins improve significantly over a product cycle so it's not set in stone.
Predicting demand is only really useful if you can tailor your yield function and doing so provides savings.
Intel doesn’t choose to make X number of top bin and Y number of the next bin, they try to optimize for as much of the top bin as they can manage.
A lot of 6 core processors have actually 8 cores, but two of them had flaws so they got disabled. The conclusion of this has been AMDs strategy, where everything from low tier CPUs to server grade use the same design, and products are built after binning the chiplets.