• DJDarren@thelemmy.club
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    7 months ago

    I won’t hold my breath on Apple using this. It’d destroy their upsell from 8gb process in one fell swoop.

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      7 months ago

      It’d destroy their upsell from 8gb process in one fell swoop.

      There’s a video where someone upgrades the memory of an iPhone by cnc’ing the existing memory chip. So basically using a drill to more or less drill the existing chip to get rid of it. Requires crazy precision.

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            7 months ago

            So I guess it was UV epoxied after soldering and he put new epoxy on with the new nand. Or something along those lines but the component is soldered in a typical way. The rotary tool being used to pull out the residual phone glue is excellent and I feel like I learned something useful even though I’m never going to do an iPhone ram upgrade.

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      7 months ago

      They’d have to redesign their SoCs. The memory chips are right next to the SoC with the M chips.

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        7 months ago

        And even then they’ll think of the most malicious way to comply:

        Forced to change the connector to USB C? Better only give it USB 2.0 speeds on the regular and Plus model.

        Forced to allow third party app stores? Better give it as many restrictions and limits as possible. I assume/hope they’ll eventually be forced to open up more, but they’ll fight it for as long as possible.