Quote Originally Posted by Mechanical Man View Post
I read it so that harvesting used as so that there is no max chip present at all.

Eg. make 12 core chips, only ever sell 10 core chips.

See the difference with your example?
Not really. It's done with cache for example. Chips are manufactured with many more cache lines than are actually active. And the Cell processor? It has 8 SPEs, but all the ones you'll find in Playstations only have 7 active.