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They may have had a contract for a certain number of chips for lightning and they’re using them in the lower iPhones instead of taking a loss.
The old chips are on a larger node and cheaper to make. They are reserving the expensive chips for the expensive phone to save margin.
They also may simply not have had enough supply of chips for the newer iPhones
That too. But likely just engineered premium.