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It's a board space and cost saving measure but it does not change performance. The tooling is also expensive and Intel have their own internal mature packaging processes.

The drams on an apple chip are still bog standard lpddr. Most benchmarks find the actual memory middle of the road at best.

Critically they aren't magically on the die or any more inside the package than most other high end mobile chips.



1. "It's not in a package, stop spreading the myth"

2. "It is in a package like no other vendor, but it's not changing performance"

3. ???


It's not packaged materially differently from the other chips it's compared against. Which is what I said originally.


Have you ever seen M1 or M2 chip? here you go https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2022/09/teardown-a... and M2 pro https://www.ifixit.com/News/71442/tearing-down-the-14-macboo...

ram is ordinary POP, you got lied to by Apple marketing. If you acted on this marketing and spend money then re-programming will be very difficult with brain actively fighting on every step to prevent cognitive dissonance.


https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...

It is cool to live in the future where 243 GB/s is middle of the road.

It is still impressive that Apple pulled it off 2 years ago, IMO.




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