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.

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.