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		Tuna-Fish on Oct 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors It's LPDDR5, which maxes out at 6.4Gbit/s/pin, on a 256bit/512bit interface. It's much easier to make a wider bus with LPDDR5 and chips soldered on the board than with DIMMs.

hydroreadsstuff on Oct 18, 2021 [–]

I hope we will see this on more devices. This is a huge boon to performance.

Might even forebode soldering RAM onto packages from here on out and forever.

Steamdeck will probably have a crazy 100gb/sec ram b/w. twice of current laptops and desktops.

zamadatix on Oct 18, 2021 | [–]

Steamdeck is 88 GB/s using quad channel.

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