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Join Date: May 2004
Location: near Bremen, Germany
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There is (probably) precedent for Apple doing this: 3rd-generation Apple TVs were a single-core A5. The original A5 in the iPhone 4S is actually a dual-core chip. Early Apple TVs appeared to just use those with one core shut off (probably an instance of binning on Samsung's part); later ones were a custom A5 variant that only had one core in the first place.
A more recent example would be the 2018 iPad Pro, which had 8 GPU cores, and one shut off. The yield has since improved that the 2020 iPad Pro has all 8 cores available.
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