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jevinskie on April 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple TV "single core" A5 actually has two cores, ...

Wouldn't it make more sense to enable it from the get go if it is really available and not locked out for yield purposes?

msbarnett on April 12, 2012 | [–]

Yeah.

The simplest and most plausible explanation here is that they're using the Apple TV's relatively low performance demands as a way to get some use out of A5s with defective cores

mrleinad on April 12, 2012 | [–]

Not if you're planning to advertise the next version of your product as "now it has a dual-core processor"

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