[dogber1]

That is an extremely common practice in the industry. Every large chip design house does this to maximize line yield - it is called "binning" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_binning#Semiconductor_...

[floatboth]

Of course binning is common, but creating a retail SKU to sell the fail bin from a semi-custom (Xbox) is always newsworthy.

There was something similar with the previous Xbox generation: https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/316299-amds-a9-9820-8-cor...