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		numpad0 on July 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nvidia’s H100: Funny L2, and Tons of Bandwidth It's always like that in consumer semiconductors. Intel has something like 3 to 5 actual silicon variants per generation that covers all dozen or two SKUs.

pclmulqdq on July 3, 2023 | [–]

This sort of yield-enhancement-by-binning extends to almost every form of semiconductor, from amplifiers to server CPUs.

nomel on July 3, 2023 | [–]

Sure, but Intel doesn't advertise the number of dead cores.

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