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Re: Today, 50 years ago

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From	Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
Subject	Re: Today, 50 years ago
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Date	2026-04-15 19:55 +0000

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On 2026-04-15, John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:

> The new Macbook Neo has an A18 Pro chip, with five GPU cores rather
> than the 6 in the version they put in the phone. It was apparently a
> way to use slightly defective chips with one broken GPU core they
> could disable, thereby letting them sell chips they would otherwise
> have thrown away.
>
> 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.

That reminds me of the one about the company that placed an order
for parts with a Japanese supplier, specifying a 1% defect rate.
When the shipment arrived, they found several parts in a plastic
bag lying on top of the remainder of the parts.  They queried
the supplier, who replied, "You specified a 1% defect rate.
For your convenience we packaged them separately."

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