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by artemonster 2714 days ago
you have no idea how chip manufacturing works, do you? :) its a gamble for them to get such chips
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> its a gamble for them to get such chips

Hardly, since the "rejects" will just be sold as the regular model(s).

In the old "lottery" system the rejects would end up on the secondary market, making Intel's final revenue effectively the same as if extreme overclocking wasn't a thing.