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points by drum55 2 days ago | 0 comments
They’re binned, not every piece of silicon will work perfectly so they’re selling the ones that did as higher SKUs and the ones with minor flaws become the lower core counts.
[–] paxy 2 days ago
Yes which is why every company that does this kind of binning advertises the actual SKU they are selling. This doesn’t fit the Apple marketing vibe, and so we end up having to guess.
[–] drum55 2 days ago
In the system info they’re referred to as M1 Pro 10 Core or whatever, much easier than Xeon 2950 E3 v3 in the scheme of things.

  Chip: Apple M5
  Total Number of Cores: 10 (4 Super and 6 Efficiency)
Same amount of information, just formatted differently ultimately.