News Summary

• 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.
• We first drew attention to the process back in 2020 when Apple used it for the M1 MacBook Air.
• 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.