• Re: pretty good chips, Today, 50 years ago

    From John Levine@3:633/10 to All on Wed Apr 15 21:26:38 2026
    According to Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net>:
    The Neo has been so popular that they've run out of 5 core chips. Oops. >>They could ask TSMC to do another run of A16 but those would be way
    more expensive than the rejects they've been using.

    They can also use the 6-core version and fuse out one of the cores
    with a small revenue hit.

    They're up to the A19 now. The A16 was their 2022 chip that went
    into the iPhone 14 and 15 series, which were discontinued in 2024.

    I would be surprised if they had any of the 6 core chips left.



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