Apple has recently overhauled its entire M-Series chip plans, scrapping the launch of the M6 Pro and M6 Max processors and jumping straight to the M7 series. While the base M6 SoC is expected to launch, Apple is moving into the M7 series without the M6 Pro/Max variants, with plans to offer some...
It shouldn’t be, if Apple gets that import exemption from the Chinese memory manufacturer (ChangXin Memory Technologies) they are asking for. Apparently they’re already testing the CXMT chips to put in the phones sold in China, freeing up the orders/stock they’ve sourced already from “safe” sources, to go into their products sold in the rest of the world.
Smart move if they can finagle it.
Hopefully they can get it through before the fuckwits in the administration understand how effectively it can threaten the big AI players that Trump seems to be sniffing around.
You absolutely BET that he will scuttle any trade deal if it interferes with his own personal agenda WRT his investments in AI.
He’s that much a greedy cunt.
apple sells ram at double market rate in the cheapest of times
Yeah the Apple fanboys are delusional if they think they’d get this on any level of affordability, Apple always overpriced for the components. “But muh reliability/engineering” I hear them scream from the void, yet I could list a ton of hardware/engineering failures from Apple products over the years, they’re not one of the most profitable companies in America for nothing, It’s because they consistently charge more for less.
The only thing I’ll give them is booting intel and really kickstarting ARM support on desktops, Microsoft just did a shit job of it (per the norm) even though they’ve been trying for like a decade at this point.
Or the more likely option that they get the cheaper ram from China and then double dip and use the ram scarcity excuse for higher prices