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Apple's biggest problem here is that they've been consistently stingy with RAM, with only the latest iPhone 15 Pro featuring 8GB. If they want to make a really
by TillE 3y ago
Apple's biggest problem here is that they've been consistently stingy with RAM, with only the latest iPhone 15 Pro featuring 8GB. If they want to make a really gutsy move for on-device AI, they could up that to 16GB at the very least.
That eats into Tim's precious margins, but it seems like a price worth paying if they want to do exciting, useful things with this tech.
- MBCook 3y agoI do wonder how useful significantly more RAM would be to the majority of iPhone owners until now. I’m sure Apple has tons of metrics collect to decide with. Adding more would certainly be a price/margin issue. Plus DRAM uses battery even if sitting unused, and battery is precious on a phone. Unless they came up with some sort of hot-plug style option to be able to turn off unused RAM chips completely, which would be cool.
- jlokier 3y agoDRAM that is unused according to the OS doesn't need to use battery, as it doesn't need to be refreshed. If this selective no-refresh feature isn't already implemented, I would expect Apple to be working on implementing it in their SoCs. But it's such an obvious and simple power saving feature that I would be surprised and disappointed if it wasn't implemented many years ago.