[StillBored]

Vs throwing the whole die away because you don't sell enough systems that small?

Its hard to tell, but intel still has a strong markup on 24 core parts being sold from 28 core dies. Intel has often be "caught" down selling parts to protect their higher margin parts. (AKA they are selling parts with things disabled that work)

[LegitShady]

they weren't "Caught" - binning is a common practice in the cpu industrty. this isn't a problem

[StillBored]

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.

[LegitShady]

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.

[johncolanduoni]

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.