Pixel 7a may’ve used a worse packaging material for the SOC resulting in higher heat and worse performance compared to pixel 7 and pixel 6

  • UrbenLegend@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Binning a chip based on its performance in the silicon lottery is VERY different from deliberately shipping a chip with worse thermals, just sayin’.

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      1 year ago

      It is very different at least in paper, but for the consumer it’s more or less the same. Lower price, lower performant chip. We’ll have to wait for benchmarks to know if the downgrade is newsworthy.

      • UrbenLegend@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Yeah if it isn’t a serious performance downgrade and doesn’t throttle hard after long periods of thermal load then the downgrade would be justified. Hopefully that’s the case.