Quote Originally Posted by Smartidiot89 View Post
What's a "dumb shrink"? They don't simply press the shrink button when a process is finished and working chips comes out the oven. There are enormous challenges to it and lots of things needs to be remade - it's costly and extremely time consuming, think not of several months rather several quarters. Just shrinking to a new process without doing any sorts of improvements doesn't make sense.
A dumb shrink is the term given to shrinking a core without giving a redesign, ex. newcastle to winchester in the athlon 64 days. As I recall the only benefit to doing a dumb shrink is to lower the power consumption.