Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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Elmer--I've been testing parts for over 20 years

Then that's probably why you don't understand that terminology :) You see, it's an agricultural metaphor. As you may know, fruits and vegetables are not fabricated, but are organically replicated and then harvested (or "picked") by machine (higher yield) or by hand (labor intensive--lower yield). Hand picking allows for more thorough and careful evaluation and quality control than does machine harvesting; therefore you obtain better performing produce, albeit at lower yields.

It's always the accusation (from you too, as I remember) that AMD "handpicks" or "cherrypicks" its higher speed processors, with the implication that it cannot produce these is any meaningful volume.