So, you joke about that, but there was a time when that was absolutely the strategy. Right around the Pentium 3 era, there was an enthusiast motherboard that came out with two sockets, and the hot advice was to get that motherboard and a pair of Celerons rather than a Pentium 3.
AMD’s first multicore CPUs were pretty much two single-core ones taped together. AMD didn’t bother designing the CPU such that it shared anything between the cores.
So, you joke about that, but there was a time when that was absolutely the strategy. Right around the Pentium 3 era, there was an enthusiast motherboard that came out with two sockets, and the hot advice was to get that motherboard and a pair of Celerons rather than a Pentium 3.
AMD’s first multicore CPUs were pretty much two single-core ones taped together. AMD didn’t bother designing the CPU such that it shared anything between the cores.