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Wonder if we'll be getting consumer grade SoCs that are CPUs with integrated RAM.
Strix Halo (AI Max CPUs) are basically that.
But they’re still DDR5 hanging off a bus, manufactured in the same place as sticks, so that wouldn’t really affect the price.
I dont know enough about the hardware details of DDR5 admittedly. But it doesn't seem improbable to architect x86_64 cpus to include a set amount.
Yeah, you lose the ability to upgrade it, but you gain guaranteed compatibility, one less component to damage and troubleshoot. People don't seem to complain about the integrated RAM in ARM processors .
In the case of Strix Halo, it was a signal integrity issue that prompted AMD to forego user replaceable RAM like LPCAMM. Soldered memory offers a more reliable channel to feed the iGPU at expected performance levels.