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Intel did this 10 years ago. People didn't like it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Upgrade_Service

"The program was introduced in September 2010 for the Clarkdale-based Pentium G6951 desktop processor [...] For a $50 fee, this processor could have one additional megabyte of cache enabled, as well hyper-threading"



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