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RAM? Are we expecting on-chip RAM any time soon?

• theodric 1y ago
  Apple's done it since 2020. Intel was planning to, but walked it back. It dramatically increases performance, and allows vendors to sell you RAM at 8x the market price, and requires you to replace your entire computer to upgrade it, thereby inducing you to overspend on RAM from the outset so that you don't have to spend even more to replace the entire system later. There's literally no reason for shareholders not to demand this from every computer manufacturer. Pay up, piggie.
  • intrasight 1y ago
    Exactly. Better performance and higher profits. Seems inevitable to me.
  • hulitu 1y ago
    > allows vendors to sell you RAM at 8x the market price, and requires you to replace your entire computer to upgrade it, Good luck then. Some of us build our own computers to be upgreadable.
    • theodric 1y ago
      Same, but about ten years after the last modular RAM computers go on the market, you and I are both going to have a Problem. Incidentally, this is why I bought a hot air rework station and a heater. Won't help me if they blow an efuse on the package to permanently set the RAM spec, or use part pairing For Your Security And Protection, but maybe they won't all be that evil.