[theshackleford]

The memory is not integrated into the SoC die itself, but it is packaged alongside the SoC rather than being separately mounted.

[esperent]

At Apple scale I would have thought that makes it cheaper, not more expensive.

[theshackleford]

I wouldn’t know honestly, it’s not one of my “special” areas of interest so I lack the knowledge haha.

I’m just mates with a dude who’s been an Apple hardware engineer for a long time.