The rising cost of memory is putting a massive dent in the earnings of Android chipset manufacturers like Qualcomm and MediaTek, and even though these companies have managed to address the lower-tier end of the smartphone market through less capable SoCs, they continue to avoid a practice that Apple has adopted since the latter introduced the original iPad in 2010. Through chip binning, the California-based giant has managed to keep its chip production costs down by re-purposing them in non-flagship products and maximizing profits.
The latest example of Apple’s chip binning is with the MacBook Neo, which sports an A18 Pro sporting a 6-core CPU and a 5-core GPU instead of the 6-core CPU and 6-core GPU found in the same silicon powering the iPhone 16…
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Source wccftech.com
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