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[–] Bryanmsi89@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I think TSMC’s 3nm has been a dud. Yields are lower, which constrains available chips and forces Apple to use more ‘binned” chips where something is wrong (GPU core doesn’t work right, memory bus is not fully functioning, etc) and also accept some chips that need higher power to stay stable.

This leads to a weak generational leap and the odd proliferation of chip configs/chip options.