Re: For the first few? Yes. That is is what rework stations are for. How else are they going to do it? This demo is a science fair project. Given that Intel is the weakest in servers, they rushed it. As soon as they could get some units, however small, that met clock rate criteria, they did the demo. It is called a face-saving event. It doesn't have anything to do with being smart, it has everything to do with reading between the lines. Intel needs to demonstrate a superior server product. They can't do it 65nm vs. 90nm, they lose. So they extrapolate.
Sounds like a great excuse for AMD's crummy execution on quad core. How come those idiots down in Sunnyvale can't seem to get a quad core demo ahead of Intel? They've been supposedly working on it for months now. Maybe they just showed dead wafers that zero yielded on their broken 65nm process. No, I know: they took chipdesigner's advice and fired the engineers so they could afford more lawyers. Brilliant.
