I think I've read that there are now Ryzen laptops shipping with LPDDR4x as well. It's awesome that Apple is using ram with this much bandwidth, but it's not exclusive.
I completely forgot that 11th gen Intels actually supported LPDDR4 / LPDDR4x.
Its kind of ridiculous: LPDDR4 has been used in phones for years, but it took until this year before Intel / AMD added support for it. Ah well. This one is definitely on Intel / AMD's fault for being slow on the uptake.
DDR4 had largely the same power-draw of LPDDR3 (but was missing sleep-mode). So I think CPU makers got a bit lazy and felt like DDR4 was sufficient for the job. But LPDDR4x is leapfrogging ahead... the phone market is really seeing more innovation than the laptop / desktop market in some respects.
- Razer Book 13
- Dell XPS 13 9310 2-in-1
- MSI Prestige 14 EVO
- Intel's new whitebox laptop platform
I think I've read that there are now Ryzen laptops shipping with LPDDR4x as well. It's awesome that Apple is using ram with this much bandwidth, but it's not exclusive.