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This is not a new idea. HP, Sun, IBM were doing this in the 90s. I remember calling HP when they shipped us a Unix system with 8 procs with 4 were supposed to be on and only 2 were. This was around 1998.

This is not a new idea. HP, Sun, IBM were doing this in the 90s. I remember calling HP when they shipped us a Unix system with 8 procs with 4 were supposed to be on and only 2 were. This was around 1998.

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They've been doing this before with the "triple core" AMD athlon and phenoms remember those? They disabled the one core out of "quality concern" then people unlock those cores with a 70% success rate. There will be more silicon hacks and unlocks in our future. :) Bring it.