| ▲ | brianolson 2 hours ago | |
Yield. Some fraction of cores had a speck of dust or something, but at 38/40 good cores per chip they got economical yield | ||
| ▲ | tjhei 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
And then even if some nodes had 40/40 "good" cores, it would make load balancing a lot more complicated if core counts vary. Easier to turn them off at the hardware level. | ||
| ▲ | dist-epoch 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Couldn't some chips have 40 good cores, while others have only 36? Do they all need to be exactly 38? | ||