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The Mac Studio hardware can do 512GB. That might be a hardware limit of the current architecture.

But the family shouldn’t be limited by that. We’re not going to see M6 Max hardware, because the M7 line is being fast-tracked and pulled forward. And I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see M7 capable of 1-2TB or more.

duskwuff | parent | next
> That might be a hardware limit of the current architecture.

It is, at the very least, a practical limit. There are unlikely to be enough customers willing to pay $50k+ for a hypothetical 1TB RAM version to make it worth manufacturing.

selectodude | parent | next
M5 Ultra has 64 channels and the densest LPDDR5X chip is 16GB - so they could produce 1TB Macs but I doubt Micron or Samsung has any to sell.
jshier | root | parent
And given the pricing of the 512GB model over $20,000, I image a 1TB version would be $50,000+.
bombcar | root | parent | next
The last Intel Mac Pro could rock 1.5 TB.
Danox | parent
The limit is strictly to cost of memory at this time. If you wanna get by that limit, you have to, well… design it yourself in house.
bigyabai | root | parent
Do you really think that Micron, Samsung and SK hynix are working in a cartel to prevent DDR5 memory from being manufactured?

Spoiler alert: they're supply-constrained too. Their customers will pay to outbid Apple, just like how Apple outbid the industry on TSMC's 5nm node.

cromka | root | parent
They were in a cartel once before already...