Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots

Re:Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots by AnthonyMouse on Sunday December 27, 2020 @12:50AM (#25549162)

Do we know what benefit they're getting by putting the memory on the chip to begin with? I had initially assumed there was some non-trivial performance advantage in it, but now people are saying not so much, so why did they do it?

It seems weird to artificially limit the max memory if there was no advantage in it.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots by wmf on Sunday December 27, 2020 @01:02AM (#25549214)

I think it's a power advantage, not performance.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots by jeffbee on Sunday December 27, 2020 @01:02AM (#25549212)

The benefit is they can charge you $200 for memory they bought from Samsung for $15. There’s no performance advantage to the user.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots by dan1234 on Sunday December 27, 2020 @03:12AM (#25549640)

I’d love to know where you’re picking up LPDDR4X-4266 RAM for $15?

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots by jeffbee on Sunday December 27, 2020 @12:45PM (#25552712)

Are you actually asking? The spot price for LPDDR4X 16G is only $9. I was actually being generous. No doubt the contract price is far lower.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots by dan1234 on Thursday December 31, 2020 @08:10AM (#25592293)

Yeah a link would be good. I haven’t seen anything approaching those prices - all well over $100

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