I wish AMD success, but this is sure a chancy way to get it. Here is a company stumbling over itself while Intel, with vastly more money, is going for the kill. And so AMD is going to sell crippled hardware? And sell it to OEMs? My best guess is that, insodoing, AMD is going to do terrible damage to its reputation for quality.
People go by icons and clichés, not by the logic of written paragraphs. "Crippled" is a word we choose not to apply to people anymore, because it has such a bad connotation. But now the world will associate it with AMD. I think that even the OEM companies are taking big chances. The thing may work just fine, but gee whiz, it's coming out with one core disabled AND the -15% performance bug.
What is AMD doing? Intel must be astonished. Well, good luck, AMD, but I'm really afraid that, with these marketing strategies and crippled, disabled new products right in the public spotlight, luck will be all you're left with. | 
