There are actually rumors that Apple might bake the ram into their chips directly. Of course that doesn’t mean that ram prices will go down, but it would mean ram will be built on these 2nm wafers
The amount of physical and engineering issues required to do this is insane. Veritasium just published a documentary about ASML's chip fabs: https://youtu.be/MiUHjLxm3V0
Maybe the marketing language is technically deficient but the result of the technology speaks for itself; devices keep getting faster AND more power efficient.
Meanwhile it's so damn hard to do that there's only one company making the machines that can pull it off and only one company that can successfully execute the process.
This stuff is ultra pimpin no matter what the marketing department calls it.
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workerONE@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 222d
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 12 pts · 222d
A 2nm Limbo would be crazy.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 8 pts · 222d
clot27@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 222d
Thats like size of 4 atoms
(Ik it doesnt refer to size of the chip but still)
AceBonobo@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 222d
How about building some ram into the chips?
Kushan@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 222d
No because apple bought up almost the entire 2026 allocation.
Vilm@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 222d
There are actually rumors that Apple might bake the ram into their chips directly. Of course that doesn’t mean that ram prices will go down, but it would mean ram will be built on these 2nm wafers
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/08/12/kuo-on-iphone-18-a20-chip-packaging/
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 222d
The amount of physical and engineering issues required to do this is insane. Veritasium just published a documentary about ASML's chip fabs: https://youtu.be/MiUHjLxm3V0
sunbeam60@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 222d
Isn’t this all marketing mumbo jumbo by now?
Buelldozer@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 222d
Maybe the marketing language is technically deficient but the result of the technology speaks for itself; devices keep getting faster AND more power efficient.
Meanwhile it's so damn hard to do that there's only one company making the machines that can pull it off and only one company that can successfully execute the process.
This stuff is ultra pimpin no matter what the marketing department calls it.