Comment Re:Still? (Score 2) 160
While this does happen it is also a way for them to increase the yield of the chips. These are huge chips they are building and the chances of bad cores on the die is rather high. So instead of junking the chips with bad cores since they cannot be sold as the ultimate high end, they create a cheaper product with cores disabled. Not all disabled cores will be bad but this does help them improve manufacturing efficiency. Also, they might have serious manufacturing issues producing these huge chips so it might cost them an arm and a leg to build them right now. So they set the price abnormally high to control the demand until they can iron out the manufacturing issues and improve the yield.