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by Traster 1915 days ago
It's been a pretty standard procedure for chip companies to sell CPUs locked from doing specific tasks, whether that's binning, burning fuses to disable functionality etc. It's much cheaper to make 1 design that does everything and segment your market using arbitrary restrictions than to design lots of chips. It's only the totally bone-headed way Nvidia decided to target this that is new.