I wonder how Apple Silicon could handle 128GB ram and 1.5TB ram

[ewu]

as we know, unified memory are integrated with CPU and GPU into a SOC chip,

I wonder how apple silicon could handle 128GB ram and 1.5TB ram,

it will be larger chip than M1 max.

 

[Gnattu]

128GB is easy, M1 Max/Pro is designed with multi die and macOS has a lot of multi-die reference. We can have 128GB with 2 M1 Max.

1.5 TB is harder, stacking that much DRAM modules on package does not sound ideal to me. Perhaps we would see multi-layer RAM instead?

 

[Joe The Dragon]

128GB is easy, M1 Max/Pro is designed with multi die and macOS has a lot of multi-die reference. We can have 128GB with 2 M1 Max.

1.5 TB is harder, stacking that much DRAM modules on package does not sound ideal to me. Perhaps we would see multi-layer RAM instead?

But how well can the chips do multi chip / socket? and what is chip to chip / off chip IO like?

can they have ram slots as an kind of L4 ram disk or maybe an slower then main system ram ram swap disk?

 

[UBS28]

You only need 8GB RAM. Have you not been listening to what Macrumors have been telling everyone for over year?

 

[thenewperson]

You only need 8GB RAM. Have you not been listening to what Macrumors have been telling everyone for over year?

Oh wow, another straw man!

 

[Ethosik]

I have a feeling it will be 128GB or maybe 256GB of Unified Memory and the rest will be "legacy slotted RAM" type of setup.

 

[Boil]

Secondary RAM to avoid swapping to the SSD, hereforth to be known as AppleCache...! ;^p