It's a different microarchitectural design, end of story, and you can't get extreme low power Silverthornes from Penryns no matter how much you chop or shut parts off either intentionally or through bad yields. Now just stop it and quietly walk away because your ignorance is just embarrassing you. These are indisputable facts which you just can't philosophize away.
>> You (and probably others as well) understand it as physical dies, whereas i understand it as a feature-set.
kpf, you are a habitual liar. And now you are trying to weasel out of you lies. You said silverthorne is what under-performing penryns are called.
This is you bs, quoted below. You were posting about variation on a single wafer. Not the many different designs on many different wafers.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=24620830 ----------------- It significantly increases variation. What you get out of such a DFM are couple of parts with very nice characteristics on the upper end - but inevitably a lot of silicon at the low end as well which you need to find markets to sell it to. ---------------