[kscherer]

Originally Posted by kscherer Ohhhhhhh … interesting. Thank you for that. I wonder, are those a slightly different design, or are those the chips with a failed GPU core that has been switched off?

Originally Posted by turtle I have to think they cripple the chip and it is made from the same die.

Originally Posted by Brave Ulysses This is entirely about economies of scale. Bean counters over tailored solutions for different tiers of products. They now have three major products all using the same SoC. They could have made a modification for the MacBook Pro to accommodate more RAM but they didn’t. Apple is all about economies of scale.

This from iFixit:

It packs eight CPU cores (four optimized for performance, and four more for efficiency), and an integrated GPU with either 7 cores or 8, depending on which config you order. (Both use the same M1 chip off the exact same production line, but Apple sorts them in a process known as “binning” where slightly lower-quality silicon results in one GPU core being disabled.)