[Arm-netbook] ppcnotebook

[Hendrik Boom]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 06:33:13AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
>  no the reason is: they make a specific batch of the processors,
> making it a large batch so that they can tune one of the wafer
> manufacturing machines over a period of several months to get it up to
> as close to a 100% yield as they can, then stockpile them.

Wasn't the power processor used in Sony's playstations a while back, 
with something like five or six CPUs and some other thing to 
coordinate them?  I heard they got around the yield problem by making 
them all with extra processors so they could make a subset of 
them that happened to work available in the actual delivered machine.

-- hendrik