But "down-grading" chips has always been the way :
Selling chips at a lower clock speed because some on the batch had failed the speed tests.
Taking CPU with failed onboard maths coprocessesors and selling them as non maths coprocessor components.
I could go on. but.......
I agree that AMD really should investigate the failures but why not let them sell off chips that are essentially sound - it could well reduce the unit costs as they will be writing off less on each production run.
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But "down-grading" chips has always been the way :
Selling chips at a lower clock speed because some on the batch had failed the speed tests.
Taking CPU with failed onboard maths coprocessesors and selling them as non maths coprocessor components.
I could go on. but.......
I agree that AMD really should investigate the failures but why not let them sell off chips that are essentially sound - it could well reduce the unit costs as they will be writing off less on each production run.