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suprnurdlast Thursday at 7:30 PM3 repliesview on HN

I read online that Apple uses three different RAM suppliers supposedly? I wonder if Apple has the ability to just make their own RAM?


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kaysonlast Thursday at 7:32 PM

Apple doesn't own any foundries, so no. It's not trivial to spin up a DRAM foundry either. I do wonder if we'll see TSMC enter the market though. Maybe under pressure from Apple or nvidia...

FastFTlast Thursday at 7:37 PM

There are no large scale pure play DRAM fabs that I’m aware of, so Apple is (more or less) buying from the same 3 companies as everyone else.

umanwizardlast Thursday at 7:32 PM

Apple doesn't own semiconductor fabs. They're not capable of making their own RAM.