From Trash to Tech Treasure: The Wild World of Chip Binning
Chip binning categorizes chips based on their performance metrics, such as clock speed, power consumption, and core count, into various price tiers. A discarded test wafer from TSMC’s Nanjing facility was discovered in a dumpster; it was intended for machine calibration rather than actual chip production. The output from TSMC’s Nanjing site primarily consists of … Read more


