I won’t hold my breath on Apple using this. It’d destroy their upsell from 8gb process in one fell swoop.
It’d destroy their upsell from 8gb process in one fell swoop.
There's a video where someone upgrades the memory of an iPhone by cnc'ing the existing memory chip. So basically using a drill to more or less drill the existing chip to get rid of it. Requires crazy precision.
What the fuck? Like its not even bga or some other kind of soldering?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbSDdU8bJI0 here's the video.
So I guess it was UV epoxied after soldering and he put new epoxy on with the new nand. Or something along those lines but the component is soldered in a typical way. The rotary tool being used to pull out the residual phone glue is excellent and I feel like I learned something useful even though I'm never going to do an iPhone ram upgrade.
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Apple only do consumer friendly when forced by the EU.
They'd have to redesign their SoCs. The memory chips are right next to the SoC with the M chips.
Not much redesign would be required tho, many laptops have hybrid memory like one slot of replaceable ram and soldered ram near it, so they could still keep things (soldered ram on chip) the way they are and just add in soc architecture interface for additional slots of replaceable ram, edit: but we all know that they wouldn't do it unless they forced by EU
I could 100% see them offering user replaceable memory, but with a slower max speed than factory installed. Gotta have something to point to when the regulators come a-knockin.
They could always lock in memory limits until you pay. But i don’t think they will anyway coz doing so won’t increase their sales.
If users have the "I can always upgrade later" option, that screws with the purchases of the higher end models "just in case I need it in the future".
Fun fact: You always use it in the future.
Good news I guess as I’ll never again buy a new computer which can’t be upgraded in the long term.
It ain’t my vision anymore and I hope more and more consumers think about buying second hand or buying upgradeable computers.
Bring back THE RAMBUS!
Now let's see it on an sff PC mobo.
I wonder if it means something for handheld devices like Steam Deck.
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