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One possibility is that the yield of M1 chips w/ 8GB is low or in short supply. They could be simply using the higher capacity modules as stop-gap. My reasons
by schappim 6y ago
One possibility is that the yield of M1 chips w/ 8GB is low or in short supply. They could be simply using the higher capacity modules as stop-gap.
My reasons for thinking this is:
1) In the embedded electronics market (day job), we've seen a heap of components and silicon become unavailable, or have very long (think a year) lead times. We've been told by our suppliers that the bottleneck is at the fab.
2) Apple is not actively using RAM to segment the iPad line (or at least doing a poor job of it.
3) The last time they bumped the RAM, it was going from 512GB to 1TB, with the difference requiring an extra half gig of RAM.