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> We live in the 2020s now and ram is plenty. The small computers we all carry in our pockets (phones) usually have between 4 and 16g GB ram. I do not think th
by Someone 2y ago
> We live in the 2020s now and ram is plenty. The small computers we all carry in our pockets (phones) usually have between 4 and 16g GB ram.
I do not think the monster CPUs running Android or iOS nowadays are representative of embedded CPUs.
RAM still requires power to retain its contents. In devices that sleep most of the time, decreasing the amount of RAM can be the easiest way to increase battery life.
I would also think many of the small computers inside my phone have less memory. For example, there probably is at least one CPU inside the phone module, a CPU doing write leveling running inside flash memory modules, a CPU managing the battery, a CPU in the fingerprint reader, etc.