A lot of that pricing started out as a result of binning.

Making CPUs is really hard, especially with larger die sizes, so you're likely to end up with defects in some of the chips you make. But since the defect might only affect some of the cores on the chip, you can just disable those cores and sell it is a 4 core chip instead of an 8 core.

Eventually the manufacturing process gets better and better and you have fewer and fewer chips with actual defects. But you don't want to cannibalize sales of your higher end chips, so you just artificially disable cores on some chips to keep your market segmentation intact.

They would also do similar things with CPU clocks as what you mentioned for RAM- where they would test each CPU and the more stable ones were sold as higher speed chips, and the less stable ones as lower speed.

> That's assembly. Rostov007 was talking about testing.

Oh cut the crap. Cameras are constantly filming the Starship tests and do you have any idea how many cameras are pointed at their McGregor test site?

> Besides, SpaceX doesn't have a sliver of the government contracts that Boeing does

SpaceX actually has about the same number of government launch contracts as Boeing does (assuming you include ULA) so I'm not sure what your point is here.

> and certainly less than a sliver of its history.

That's true. SpaceX doesn't have nearly as many failures in their history as Boeing does :)

Seriously though, wtf does this have to do with anything?

> How much of SpaceX are miltary contracts? Boeing does a huge amount.

SpaceX has more military launch contracts that Boeing does since Boeing has precisely zero so what's your point?

> Anyway, enough of this. Unsubscribing. There's a weird kneejerk positive reaction to SpaceX and similarly weird kneejerk negative reaction to other companies (and NASA) that I'm not willing to engage right now.

Oh please. Boeing has been one failure after another since the MD merger. SLS is ludicrously over-budget. 787 deliveries are suspended again. The 737 Max fiasco. Starliner is a joke.

I'm not sure why you feel the need to keep defending a company that keeps failing, but that's something you need to figure out for yourself.

And if you want to unsubscribe, the button is over on the right :)

Meanwhile, SpaceX started building Starship in a bunch of tents next to a road where lots of people stop to take photographs, and over which people fly all the time to take photographs.