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If I were to guess, they probably concluded that `cumulative wasted manufacturing cost` < `engineering fees and costs of maintaining two entirely different chips`.

I think this type of pseudo-wasteful design is not unheard of when manufacturer had two markets to deliver to that had substantially different processing, but not I/O, requirements, as well as when some of major features in already manufactured chip didn't work out and ways to offset losses would be nice.