It's a repost, yes. But cutting back on the professional product means they'll be cutting back on the high end customer one too. They're usually very similar.

No it doesn't for sure kwyjibo. The Tesla cards require more power due to the larger RAM size and clocks. In order to bring power consumption down, they would need to disable one of the core clusters. It's ok for them to push the max TDP for the consumer cards. But when it comes to the Tesla cards, they have to make sure they do not go over, as these cards/chips are packed together in large server racks a lot of the time. And going over by even a bit, spread across a large amount of these cards would create a big problem for the user.

Another reason could be for redundancy. By making a chip with 512 cores, but only saying you need 448 of them. You can increase chip yields a lot more. As you have 64 cores to spare in case of chip abnormalities. This gives them more yields to choose the cream of the crop chips from, and use the remaining for GTX 360's.

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Let me be clear. This is sarcasm