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Re:M5 MacBook Pro by lotsofpulp on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @11:09AM (#45593794)
…or they are still working on fine tuning/testing production of the world’s most technologically difficult thing to mass manufacture?
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Re:M5 MacBook Pro by sroussey on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @11:22AM (#45593968)
It takes 3 months to manufacture a chip end to end. If you find a hardware bug once complete, you have to start over and you end up with a three month delay.

Looks like the Pro and Max will be on a three month delay.

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Re:M5 MacBook Pro by astrange on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @01:28PM (#45595862)
If you find a hardware bug that late, you're not fixing it and you're looking for chicken bits to flip. It is /extremely/ expensive to validate changes and remake the masks.
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Re:M5 MacBook Pro by sroussey on Friday October 17, 2025 @01:42AM (#45613632)
It may not have even gone to manufacture to find out there was an issue. And yeah, remaking masks takes time.
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