More or less, yes. Of course, defects are not evenly distributed, so you get a lot of chips with different grades of brokenness. Normally the more broken chips

More or less, yes. Of course, defects are not evenly distributed, so you get a lot of chips with different grades of brokenness. Normally the more broken chips gets sold off as lower tier products. A six core CPU is probably an eight core with two broken cores. Though in this case, it seems [1] that Cerebras just has so many small cores they can expect a fairly consistent level of broken cores and route around them [1]: https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/100x-defect-tolerance-how-cerebras-solved-the-yield-problem https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/100x-defect-tolerance-how-cereb...