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Originally Posted by muddoctor  It might or might not on this. ES processors, especially qualification samples, are very near production silicon and sometimes the very same stepping does make it into the production line, if no outstanding errata that have to be fixed are found. They are otherwise built to production silicon standards. But you are very right in that companies that are selling ES product as retail product are some shady operators, to say the least. |
Thats true,however they are still non-production silicon and are not clock locked for qualification and validation of a multitude of hardware configurations as well as software to some degree. They could very well become production silicon, only clock locked and or tweeked with the same stepping for retail.
Shady operators indeed...