Friday, June 12, 2015

Are pentiums and i3 fabricated and cut from the same sheet of silicon?


speaking strictly of desktop CPUs. After all the layers are connected, stacked, cut, and tested;

are the pentiums just binned i3 that didnt pass "the grade" or exceeded their TDP

so they turn off some of the cache and turn down the multiplier

i would assume the same could be said about the i5 and i7. And could mobile CPUs related to desktop CPUs in a similar technique.

I know some i7 were really Xeons put on a different sockets and nVidias quadro line are cherry picked GTX chips. And BTW i am speaking of the current pentiums not like pentium 4

for example how many different sets of blueprints would intel need if they release 20 variations of a desktop CPUs under the same family and version but different clock speed, cores, cache, etc. Like devils canyon or ivy bridge.

any links to useful information would be helpful

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