Re:New iMac with M4
by angoragoats on Monday October 28, 2024 @12:30PM
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If you're trying to get into a semantic argument about the meaning of "CPU package," I'm not interested, thanks!
You already made a pretty specific claim on that point. You were just wrong.
FWIW I wasn’t trying to start a semantic argument about the meaning of the term “CPU package,” I just thought it was a clear and specific term.
Re:New iMac with M4
by angoragoats on Monday October 28, 2024 @03:19PM
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Thanks for clarifying, and especially for not being snarky!
I think I was thrown off by your use of the term "inside," vs other terms like "on" or "part of," which led me to believe you were asking about the memory being part of the SoC proper. If that's not what you meant, I apologize.
The memory consists of standard DDR4/5 memory chips, soldered on a PCB, directly next to the M-series SoC. So my point was that while it is likely faster than any memory you could get on a standard consumer PC, it's not in any way special (read: more expensive) for Apple to source or assemble.
Side point: I don't think it's necessarily fair to compare most Macs to consumer PC hardware, given the price differentials involved.
Can you link to a teardown that finds RAM somewhere other than the CPU package?
Or were you in too much of a hurry to notice that the comment you replied to didn't make the common mistake of claiming the RAM is on-die not just on-package?