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Originally Posted by Banana
Well, that's why I started asking questions because I was thinking about that exact statement and how it doesn't make sense to me. If the frequency a chip runs at isn't even influenced by fabbing process, but rather by the quality of process, it'd stand to reason that it'd be easier to sell those chips at one frequency and adjust the price based not on the frequency but rather on the quality or something like that, no?
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It's not that the frequency isn't affected by the fabbing process...it's that pricing isn't affected by it. The chipmakers want to control the pricing of their chips even if it means putting some top bin processors in the bottom bin to sell every chip they make. They'd rather do that than drop the prices of all their chips. They'd be dropping the price of their low-end chip, making it even more popular when they don't make as many...all the while having the high-end chip be cheaper too...