Elon Musk...Hallelujah!!
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Isn’t that the same chip as the prior model, but with the extra cores actually turned on? My understanding was that was the only difference, software disabled 2 cores and they magically enable them on the new one. Yet they don’t use the same software to turn on the cores on the old model. That routine sounds like con to me.
If i remember correctly, it was a binning issue. Some stupid high number (something like 50%+) of the new chips had issues in two of their cores, so they disabled them in the first run. When they refreshed to the next phone/laptop the following year, they had cleared up the manufacturing issues and turned on the cores, and then boasted about performance gains.
Somebody made a way to turn those cores back on, from what I read, but there was a chance you'd immediately glitch on boot and have to reinstall.
Count me out of wanting to be in the chip making business. The amount of worthless garbage you have to sort through before finding one that actually works as intended is crazy.
What, you dont like your 5 Billion manufacturing plant to be brought to it's knees by a gram of dust?