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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by nonrandomstring on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @12:48PM (#33083049)
Is it really the case that dies/packages are tested and batched individually?

I mean, you make a good point on reliability/quality, but there are surely cases where to create a product differential perfectly good (and known to be good) devices are crippled.

That seems ever less ethically defensible as we move into scarcity.

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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by Gordonjcp on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @05:39AM (#33093221)
Depends on the value. If you test half a dozen off a die and they're all sub-spec, they're all binned the same even if some are okay.

This is why overclocking used to work - if even a small proportion of the chips tested were good to 25MHz, that was a 25MHz batch, guaranteed good to 25MHz. If you got a "lucky penny" that'd go to 33MHz as per the design spec, then good for you! But it wouldn't be guaranteed to do that.

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