[jayparth]

> materials

They're all printed from the same wafers.

> labor

It's not like manual laborers are sitting there carving these things by hand. We program computers to do it.

Reprogramming and setting up the hardware for multiple SKUs increases cost, paradoxically

[uluyol]

> They're all printed from the same wafers.

Not just that. When you fab a design you'll get sometimes get errors here or there and have to disable things. Or it won't be safe to drive the thing to the highest clock speeds. But none of that is happening here: we're talking about the same design and same output quality.

Really just absolute greed and lack of innovation. I hope ARM and AMD continue to eat away at them for this reason. Same feeling about BMW/Mercedes and the subscription heated seats.

[brookst]

Would you be happier if Intel spent the money to have a second SKU that removed the features in silicon, including imperfect yield, and charged more than they are now to cover that extra cost?

Pricing makes more sense when you pay for value delivered.