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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Intel Abandons Non-Upgradeable RAM
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2024 19:09:20 -0000 (UTC)
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Apple’s ARM-based machines get a lot of their performance boost from
tightly integrating the CPU and RAM package, to the point where the
RAM is no longer upgradeable.

Intel tried to do the same thing with its “Lunar Lake” laptop chips.
Now it says that was a mistake, and the next generation of laptop
chips will go back to having upgradeable RAM again.

Some have tried to claim that Apple’s monolithic approach is the way
forward, that other vendors were bound to copy it. But I always saw it
as an evolutionary dead end.

<https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/1/24285513/intel-ceo-lunar-lake-one-off-memory-package-discrete-gpu>