It seems like it would be trivial for them to reduce quality control and have customers just "deal with" chips that aren't as stable. How come they aren't doing this?

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[–] 10 points 6 months ago

I don't remember the details, but the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities from a few years ago also felt like they were cutting corners. Those were enabled by some fundamental architectural decisions, which really just didn't sound like a good idea to me, when I read up on them.

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