The $599 MacBook Neo has been flying off the shelves and online stores so fast that Apple has been forced to double its production target. Even now, when I’m writing this article, the shipping time on the official website is two to three weeks. Semiconductor analyst Tim Culpan of Culpium claims that Apple has asked its manufacturing partners, Quanta and Foxconn, to increase the production capacity to 10 million units, nearly double the initial estimate. However, increasing production could cause a price problem for buyers very soon. Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends How does increasing production cause a price problem? According to Culpan, Apple cleverly repurposed the A18 Pro chips, rejected during the iPhone 16 Pro production, and used them as a “binned” version with one of the six GPU cores disabled. These chips were perfectly working, except for one GPU core, and hence, Apple didn’t have to incur high costs for them.…