It could be they couldn't a yield of 24 out of these, similar to how the PS3 has 7 cores. Maybe some chips yield 24 cores so they disable one, but most only yield 23.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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It could be they couldn't a yield of 24 out of these, similar to how the PS3 has 7 cores. Maybe some chips yield 24 cores so they disable one, but most only yield 23.