AMD Readies "Lottery-Core" CPUs

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.'"

Comments

Incremental!

[TrisexualPuppy]

How about you get the number of cores proportional to the post number? FIRST!

Wait a sec...holding off on this one...

Re:Hmm.......

[Mashiki]

No no. Seems completely legit to me.

Already attempted by Intel.

[llvllatrix]

Didn't go over so well. Just ask newegg.

Give me an f-ing break

[fredrated]

Stop with the April fools posts already!

Re:Give me an f-ing break

[Beelzebud]

I used to like April Fools day. Now it's just annoying. Every web page on the internet is basically useless for a day.

Re:Give me an f-ing break

[PolygamousRanchKid]

Every web page on the internet is basically useless for a day.

Most pages on the internet are basically useless for every day of the year.

Re:Uh....

[LostCluster]

Let's not forget NewEgg's recent version of this promotion with their "Zero chips--- you're a loser!" packages.

Chaos theory

[tepples]

Take a machine designed to give out specific units of force, and balls designed to weigh the same weight they are prescribed, and you've got a very predictable physical system.

Even if it is predictable, it isn't necessarily tractable. The air inside one of those table tennis ball blenders, for instance, is a chaotic system. The "specific units of force" aren't always constant given fluctuations in power supply.

your state lottery is just as random as the PRNG at headquarters.

More likely, the PRNG that dictates exactly how long the machine runs isn't entirely pseudo but instead tied to an entropy-gathering process such as hashing room noise received through the microphone.

Re:How to rig a lottery

[CyprusBlue113]

Except they don't, because the vast majority of the systems are based on the concept of turbulent flow of a fluid (in this case air generally), which is for all practical purposes due to the number of variable points of deflection impossible to model for any time period signifigant enough to allow for predictions of these machines as they are designed to long pass this point before the balls would lock in position.

Heck trying to model turbulent flow on a fixed path is hard enough, trying to model turbulent flow through a mass of shifting floating deflectors is downright masochistic.

Re:How to rig a lottery

[strength_of_10_men]

and given that you have to lock in your picks before you even know the initial state, i wouldn't worry too much about it.

Dontruinitwithtags ... it was already ruined.

[BitZtream]

To whomever decided to add the 'dontruinitwithtags' tag ...

IT WAS RUINED ALREADY WITH THE OTHER 9 GOD DAMN APRIL FOOLS POSTS. ENOUGH ALREADY.

I get excited at a glimmer of hope of something to read while I sit here and wait for this batch to run ... only to find out another moronic April Fools post was made ... because 10 in one day just isn't enough.