The top end most profitable SKUs are fully enabled dies. That they are now able to ship dies this large is a good sign. The 10nm laptop chips they have produced so far were rumored to have atrocious yield.
"The top end most profitable SKUs are fully enabled dies." If you take a part that would be discarded because it didn't make "top end" binning, and sell it as a lesser(core count or clock speed) chip. Isn't that profit from what would otherwise be scrap?
Yes. But that’s a silver lining to a black cloud not the best case scenario.
My impression is the vast, vast majority of chips have at least part of the chip disabled to help solve yield problems. So it seems to be the status quo?