AMD Readies "Lottery-Core" CPUs

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday April 1, 2010 @06:12AM from the don't-roll-snake-eyes dept.

Barence writes "AMD has announced a radical shake-up of its CPU strategy, in an exclusive interview with PC Pro. The company has revealed that the next generation (codenamed Tyche) will be offered as a single 'lottery-core' SKU, with the number of functional cores in each part left for the customer to discover. 'We know gaming is very important to our customers,' explained regional marketing manager Ffwl Ebrill, 'and we're innovating to bring that win-or-lose experience out of the virtual world and into the marketplace.' Anyone discovering more than ten functional cores could consider themselves 'a lottery winner,' while unfortunates discovering their new CPU had no working cores at all would be encouraged to 'roll again.'"

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Hmm....... by ivanwyc · 2010-04-01 06:14 · Score: 0, Troll

April 1st?
Believable if this had been Intel by kbg · 2010-04-01 07:15 · Score: 0, Troll

Well if this had been Intel then this would have been believable since they already have a lottery-virtualization core, that is you don't know if your CPU supports virtualization or not even in CPUs of the same generation and family. However this is AMD so this must be an april fools.