Called chip binning, it is a quality control process in which chips with sub-optimal performance are reused by disabling certain cores to prevent discarding chips that cannot achieve maximum performance on all their cores.
Apple likely had an excess of A17 Pro chips in the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max models, leading to their use in the iPad mini 7. Despite the reduced GPU core count, the overall performance of the iPad mini 7 will likely be similar. It’s similar to the iPhone 15 Pro for most tasks. Thus, the A17 Pro combined with 8GB of RAM allows the new iPad to support future Apple Intelligence AI features in iPadOS 18.1.
Pre-orders for the iPad mini 7 are now available.
Source: Ferra
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