Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[j3pflynn]

EP & other process experts - What would be the economic advantages/disadvantages of continuing to run Tbred and Barton concurrently as opposed to doing Barton and Thorton which, from looking at the image, has to either have defective cache disabled or just intentionally disabled cache? Would the cost of the die size for Thorton be greater the cost savings of not having to run the separate die for Tbred? Just assume for the sake of argument that cache defects are not a substantial issue, and that the huge majority of the Thortons would have cache disabled for marketing/economic reasons rather than for defects? Would it make any sense?
Paul