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[โ€“] Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is just speculation on my part, but I guess they are detected, but the firmware just doesn't use all of them. I think the chips are all a bit different, with different defects, parts removed, and stuff like that.

[โ€“] ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That is for sure true. And this variance that creates the "binning lottery" people talk about (and why there is some people that will pay premium for specific high binned parts)