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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Incremental! by TrisexualPuppy · 2010-04-01 06:13 · Score: 5, Funny

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

Wait a sec...holding off on this one...
Re:Hmm....... by Mashiki · 2010-04-01 06:15 · Score: 5, Funny

No no. Seems completely legit to me.

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Already attempted by Intel. by llvllatrix · 2010-04-01 06:16 · Score: 5, Funny

Didn't go over so well. Just ask newegg.
Re:Give me an f-ing break by PolygamousRanchKid+ · 2010-04-01 06:24 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

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