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My $.02 on how silicon yields work. You will have a wafer that has many die on it, usu. about 1000 for a memory chip like this. Although each was made from the same silicon "recipie", not all of them will run the same. You will have two die sitting beside one another. One will be rated as a -5, and the other as a -6 when Samsung is sorting their product.
Through the sort pass, they will go into one bin or the other. They are not nec. printed at that time. When the order comes in, that is when they are printed. If somebody orders 50000 -6 rated parts, you may get 40000 -6 rated parts and 10000 -5 rated parts because that was *all* of the -6's they had in stock. However, all of them will be printed as being -6's.
Whoever bought them would have to do their own sort to find out which, if any, of them are really -5 capable.
Samsung is not going to mislabel their own ram. Samsung is not going to take chips out of their -6 bin and label them and sell them as a -5.
Through the sort pass, they will go into one bin or the other. They are not nec. printed at that time. When the order comes in, that is when they are printed. If somebody orders 50000 -6 rated parts, you may get 40000 -6 rated parts and 10000 -5 rated parts because that was *all* of the -6's they had in stock. However, all of them will be printed as being -6's.
Whoever bought them would have to do their own sort to find out which, if any, of them are really -5 capable.
Samsung is not going to mislabel their own ram. Samsung is not going to take chips out of their -6 bin and label them and sell them as a -5.
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