For people who still don't get how bad DIMMs are
If you need a ton of memory bandwidth and have the money then you build your product around HBM2 or similar. There are routers, switches, IPS, etc built like this today. Most consumer computer systems only need big memory bandwidth for graphics, which is why video cards have fast on-board memory. Apple of course doesn&#x27;t want to buy another vendor&#x27;s graphics hardware and has experience designing their own bespoke hardware, so they designed an integrated system which of course then needs big memory bandwidth. It&#x27;s an interesting bet that is certainly paying out in terms of power efficiency, but it&#x27;s not some impossible feat of engineering.<p>Intel is married to the commodity server market and their laptop&#x2F;mobile products have always been trickle-down, because they are a giant megacorp whose roadmaps are dictated by their biggest profit centers. Even if they designed this kind of system, they wouldn&#x27;t be able to capture most of the profit from it like Apple can, since they don&#x27;t sell memory or systems, they sell CPUs. After the mobile debacle, Microsoft pivoted to SaaS and is way too chickenshit to start designing hardware. Apple is the only company incentivized to produce a product like this for consumers. This is not going to suddenly become profitable for the commodity server market; and it doesn&#x27;t have to; it&#x27;s not a market Apple is particularly interested in.