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The silicon lottery is still a thing. I imagine they will eventually have enough chips to start binning for different performance levels like AMD and Intel do.
by GeekyBear 6y ago
The silicon lottery is still a thing.
I imagine they will eventually have enough chips to start binning for different performance levels like AMD and Intel do.
- AshamedCaptain 6y agoThey are already binning. The air is supposed to be less powerful, with cheaper variants even having one core less. The benchmark is just ... that accurate.
- GeekyBear 6y agoThey are binning for functional GPU cores and allow chips with only 7 functional GPU cores instead of 8 to go into the lower priced Air. They are not binning for how high the cores will clock, which is just how business is done with Intel and AMD.