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Apple’s faulty chips are big business for the company, and not just in the MacBook Neo

Apple’s faulty chips are big business for the company, and not just in the MacBook Neo

Apple has for years been using a procedure known as chip binning to reuse faulty chips in other models of a product, or even entirely different products. A new report gives further examples of cases where Apple has been able to take chips which failed quality control for one product and subsequently...

Apple has for years been using a procedure known as chip binning to reuse faulty chips in other models of a product, or even entirely different products.

A new report gives further examples of cases where Apple has been able to take chips which failed quality control for one product and subsequently use them in another – and says that the practice dates all the way back to the original iPad and iPhone 4 …

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