It seems like it would be trivial for them to reduce quality control and have customers just “deal with” chips that aren’t as stable. How come they aren’t doing this?
It seems like it would be trivial for them to reduce quality control and have customers just “deal with” chips that aren’t as stable. How come they aren’t doing this?
It’s already common for chipmakers to disable cores entirely because of a single mistake. With 100 Billion+ transistors, even a doubling in error rate would 100fold the number of wasted dies.
Making the stencils is already expensive there’s no real way to cheap out on it.