I read in a separate article that the CPU in new Macs will have memory on-chip? 8 GB to start with, and 16 GB later, with no possibility of expansion? Just askin'. That'll be fine for most users, but not for power users. (I'm a heavy user of Adobe CC apps and have 56 GB installed.)
If the above is true, I wonder if they'll go with some kind of NUMA architecture in their very-high-end Macs.
Yeah RAM appears to be on-chip, apparently with that they can do a whole bunch of zero-copy between the different components (CPU, GPU, ML) for increased performance over the alternative. I'd be very interested to see the low-level OS architecture for this type of setup.
Memory on-chip? (Score:2)
I read in a separate article that the CPU in new Macs will have memory on-chip? 8 GB to start with, and 16 GB later, with no possibility of expansion? Just askin'. That'll be fine for most users, but not for power users. (I'm a heavy user of Adobe CC apps and have 56 GB installed.)
If the above is true, I wonder if they'll go with some kind of NUMA architecture in their very-high-end Macs.
Re:Memory on-chip? (Score:4, Interesting)
Yeah RAM appears to be on-chip, apparently with that they can do a whole bunch of zero-copy between the different components (CPU, GPU, ML) for increased performance over the alternative. I'd be very interested to see the low-level OS architecture for this type of setup.