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Comment by cousinbryce | original | Benchmarking Pocket-Scale Inference
[−]cousinbryce · 2026-08-30 Sun 14:17 UTC · link
There’s something I’d don’t understand about this. Apple’s RAM is on their own die. Is the price of RAM an indicator for the cost of die space in general?
[−]dgacmu · 2026-08-30 Sun 14:49 UTC · link
No - DRAM is made on a different process than compute. Apple uses dram made by the usual dram manufacturers.

The dram shortage is a combination of high demand + shifting manufacturing to HBM, which consumes more wafer capacity than DDR5