📱 Apple turns imperfect chips into a bestselling MacBook

The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple uses A18 Pro chips with one disabled graphics core in the new MacBook Neo.

These are chips that did not fully meet the specifications for the iPhone 16 Pro, where Apple reserves the highest-performing versions.

Demand for the lower-cost MacBook was so strong that Apple reportedly ran out of these partially disabled chips and began using fully functional chips with one core intentionally turned off.

What looks like manufacturing waste can become a product category

📊 @tech