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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by skept on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @07:53PM (#25054277)
That's 16GB of DRAM. Caches are SRAM, which has a very different set of design tradeoffs. SRAM cells use more transistors so they can't be packed as tightly as DRAM.
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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by tinus_hn on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:13AM (#25056466)
16gb is 500 times as much as 32mb. Cache memory is not 500 times as large as normal memory.

If 32mb would be too hard they could have easily went for 1mb.

But they didn’t and that’s a pretty good indicator it doesn’t make a lot of difference.

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