Apple has a dilemma that most manufacturers wouldn’t mind solving. The new budget-friendly MacBook Neo is selling so fast that the tech giant might run out of laptops before it can make more.
One of the ways Apple was able to hit such a low price for the Neo was by using a “binned” version of the A18 Pro chip, a leftover from the iPhone 16 Pro. These binned chips have a slight manufacturing defect in one of their six integrated graphics cores — that’s why the MacBook Neo has five GPU cores, while the iPhone 16 Pro has six. Instead of spending money to manufacture a processor for the Neo, Apple simply drew on a supply it already had.
The problem, according to Tim Culpan in his Culpium newsletter, is that this supply of binned A18 Pro processors is finite and running low. Culpan reports that Apple had planned to make between 5 and
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