> Of course you aren't going to release product which is going to be slower, right? Sure you can, you could release a product which is tad slower but much chea

> Of course you aren't going to release product which is going to be slower, right? Sure you can, you could release a product which is tad slower but much cheaper than flagship. Typically some cores are binned in the higher end chip to make it lower performance, you could launch the lower end chip later separately . It was also normal to launch a lower performance chip but that has less idle or total power draw. M1 and M2 series are fundamentally that, there are better performing chips ( by core or total ) than M1, M2 but none at their power draw.