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> It's quite obvious that RAM capacity in the M# world is closely tied to die space occupied by the CPU/GPU cores, and... it's not entirely obvious that this is
by brucethemoose2 3y ago
> It's quite obvious that RAM capacity in the M# world is closely tied to die space occupied by the CPU/GPU cores, and... it's not entirely obvious that this is unreasonable? (unlike, say, an iPhone with 64GB flash)
That has nothing to do with the 8GB base.
There are 3 different M chips each generation, and each one has a fixed number of memory channels that goes out to seperate RAM chips specced/packaged in a way similar to smartphone RAM.
The base M3 is not capped at 8GB. Apple chose to use low capacity LPDDR5X chips in the base config. It was a business/marketing decision, not a technical one.