Re: Hardware for new Linux box

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From: Graham Murray
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 00:00

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In uk.comp.os.linux, john@polo.demon.co.uk (John Winters) writes:

> If all the buyers want the lower specced chips then that's how
> they'll be labelled and priced.  This is why Intel have been so keen
> of late to build in mechanisms to ensure you only run chips at the
> speed you paid for.

If all of the chips come from the same fabrication process with the
same die, how can the "chip" know at what speed it is allowed (has
been rated) to run? Or is this something put into the carrier (which
the silicon can read) rather than in the silicon itself?

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