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Some amount for sure, but what for? RAM is pretty cheap, and not that scarce anymore. Back in my 386 days, 4 MB was very tight and I'm sure developers had to b

Some amount for sure, but what for? RAM is pretty cheap, and not that scarce anymore. Back in my 386 days, 4 MB was very tight and I'm sure developers had to be very careful with it. Today you can have 32 GB for not that much and it's likely that you'll never seriously get into swap.

ksec 4y ago
>Some amount for sure, but what for? From entry level computing to every appliances. If we want to move baseline memory from 8GB to 16GB, even if it was DDR ( discounting LPDDR price ) that is at least $24 increase in BOM cost, or a total of $48 BOM cost. This is worst for something like Pi or NAS, Router to Smart Appliances where their ASP are much lower. Because of the increase in memory usage, they will either have to rise their price ( which they dont ), let it eat into their margin ( which they wont ), or find $3 BOM cost cutting. Likely coming from SoC.