Re: Apple rumored to finally stop putting crappy RAM in the iPhone 17 Air

On 2025-07-10 17:34, Marion wrote:

Historically, Apple puts crappy cheap garbage components into the iPhone.
Such as crappy RAM, garbage batteries & lack of basic fundamental hardware.

All of that is false.

 Hopefully, the era of absolute garbage iPhones is coming to an end.
a. The EU forced Apple's hand on the el cheapo iPhone batteries

False.

b. And AI forced Apple's hand on the bargain-basement crappy RAM

False.

 To wit, the new iPhone 17 Air is rumored to have modern amounts of both.
  <https://wccftech.com/iphone-17-air-a19-pro-chip-with-fewer-gpu-cores-performance/>
   " It was recently reported that the ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air
     will be equipped with the same 12GB of RAM as the Pro iPhones,
     and a leaker now claims that the handset will be powered by
     the A19 Pro chip, but with fewer GPU cores."

nanoreview.net ranks mobile processors and their current highest ranking one is the the MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus with a ranking score of 98, where Apple A18 Pro has a score of 97.
The MediaTek processor has 8 cores to the Apple processor's 6.
And it is faster...
...but it is one of only 3 processors that beat the A18 Pro's ranking.
3...
...out of TWO HUNDRED AND TEN!

 While the iPhone's ridiculously low core count has always been less than
exciting, the lack of cores is not that big of a deal compared to the el
cheap battery & RAM capacity (which are critically important components).

Just like with battery capacity, core count is not a metric any user actually cares about.
Same with RAM. No one cares about how much RAM a device has...
...they only care if it does the things they need.

 Finally, being always about 5 years behind Android, Apple is catching up.
 Unfortunately, no iPhone has even the most basic of hardware functionality.
So the iPhone is still laughably substandard garbage - but perhaps less so.
  Note: Apple may be using chip binning which is a way to put the dies that
failed into that iPhone 17 Air that you will pay through the nose for.

Every chip maker uses chip binning, doofus.
'All chip makers like Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, and other Arm-based manufacturers incorporate a selection process where higher performing chips are designated to be sold as more expensive models (offering higher clock speeds, more cores, etc.) and less-than-perfect parts but still fully utilizable silicon can be sold as lower performing processors with cores disabled, or lower speeds.'
<https://www.techspot.com/article/2039-chip-binning/>