Alleged Schematic Shows iPhone 6 Coming with 1GB of RAM [Updated]

Omg

I really would like to buy the iPhone 6, I still have the 4S and would like to upgrade but with 1GB of RAM, no way...

And finally, maybe Android devices aren't that bad...
 
Note: If this is true, and the iPad shares the same SoC and RAM comfig, it will be the 4th year in a row the iPad has had 1GB of RAM...
 
I really want an iphone 6. But its crap like this that keeps me from buying an iphone. Hope this isnt true.

My gs4 has 2gb ram. I'm not downgrading to 1gb.

Thinking this isnt true since iphone 6 is gaining a bigger screen I cant see apple not upgrading the ram.
 
You people need to learn how to close some apps and hard restart your phone from time to time. I have 6 tabs open on my safari right now and am easily swapping back and forth with no refreshes on an old iphone 5. Learn to use the app closing function then get back to us.

Have 9 tabs open now. No refreshing.
 
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Come on guys. There's only 1 thing Apple values more than user performance. That's profitability and whatever it takes to drive data overages.

iOS 4 killed the performance of iPhone 3G
iOS 7 killed the performance of the iPhone 4

The bottlenecks above were primarily due to memory.

iOS 11 WILL kill the performance of the iPhone 6.

Apple wants you to upgrade every 2-3 years!

If webpages need to reload... that's more data consumption for the carriers.

Corporate WIN WIN!

Pay up Fanboys, September is coming!!
 
Gottxxc said:
I really would like to buy the iPhone 6, I still have the 4S and would like to upgrade but with 1GB of RAM, no way...

And finally, maybe Android devices aren't that bad...
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Aren't that bad? I've had all the iphones and I can tell you that my current Android, LG G3, is very good phone in comparison to anything Apple has or likely will have in the 6.
 
SarcasticJoe said:
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The actual reason why the A8 is such a great chip is not that the instruction set is now 64 bit, but eveything else about it. Not only can you do a lot of jobs that previously took several instructions in a single instruction, you've got a whole bunch of completely new instructions and the general purpose registers are now both twice the size and twice as many. In doubling of the number of general purpose registers is genuinely big step forward when it comes to IPC (Instructions Per Clock) figures.

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When the number of general purpose registers increases and their size increases, that means more ram is used for each running app (when the data in those registers has to be stored temporarily in ram). Which means even less ram or other apps to use.

Andandtech's review last year mentioned this. http://www.anandtech.com/show/7460/apple-ipad-air-review/9 (scroll down to Memory Size & The Impact of 64-bit Applications)
 
The next generation DDR RAM will be enough with 1 GB. For ipads will be more accurate to add 2 Gb Ram. They better perfect the A8 chip the sapphire panel, the energy efficiency and the design
 
If it's true it's a shame but the people are to blame. They'll buy whatever Apple makes and Apple is going for the payday instead of making better software. I can't see how they can do more than they do now with 1 only gig. The 1 one app at a time thing doesn't work anymore in 2014. It's also ridiculous how the tabs always reload. It feels like the 90's on 33.6.
 
This looks like a NAND Flash Chip, not DRAM, based on the nets names.
"AP_TO_NAND" application processor to NAND and "AP_BI_NAND" application processor to & from NAND
NAND flash chips use double data rate so that is why it says DDR.
I wouldn't panic over this leak because it says nothing about the application processor's DRAM.
 
Mtmspa said:
I was expecting 512 and once again Apple exceeded my expectations. Awesome.
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You were expecting the same amount of ram of the iPhone 4/4s?
Oh, maybe you were sarcastic! =)

I was expecting for it to cost 10.000€, but it's only 850 €. Once again Apple exceeded my expectations. Awesome.
 
If these latest rumors (1gb ram, small battery etc) are to become reality then this is not good for apple. I will buy myself the iphone6 anyway because I need to upgrade my iphone4, but if I had a 5 or 5s I would not be in a hurry to buy a new one...

Apple needs to watch out, since it is now the most expensive phone out there with $650+ and the competitors are flooding the markets with pretty competitve phones in the $200-300 range. The only thing that really still keeps me and others buying iphones is iOS. Is that really worth a $400 premium? Especially since I don't have a day worth of battery life and cannot properly use multitasking/multitabbing!

The iphone6 will work great out of the box and everybody will be happy, but what about in 2 years time? Will it become slow to use because they didnt want to put more ram into the device?

Lets wait and see what Apple will release, but it will be interesting to see what the next generations of iphones will look like, there is not so much innovation to come up with after this, even the competitors reached an innovation dead-end and now we are finally starting to see a price war to emerge!

If apple doesnt do something drastic like price-cuts or come up with something truely amazing in the next years, then the iphone6 might be my last iphone!
Dont get me wrong, i love apple products and Im heavily invested into it, but I dont understood why I should pay $650+ for a smartPHONE, which I use like a $200 smartphone, while my iPad costs $500 and Im being more productive and spent much more time with it!
 
Depending on Apple's methods, and I'm guessing they tend towards secrecy, they would never have to share a schematic with external suppliers. Manufacturers want netlists anyway. I wouldn't read too much into it.

Also, since this is RAM, the only supplier who'd have any business with it is their packager. I assume that's TSMC, but I don't know. So the leak would need to be directly from them.
 
Just HOW can people keep forgiving apple's failures?? Since I got my Note 3, there has never been a website reloaded unintentionally on my phone. It's such a delight to surf the Web and do other things at once on that phone. And STILL people are claiming the iPhone to be the best surfing experience. Apple is so deep in to their fanboys it's scary.
 
Apple handles memeory very well

My best argument here would be that Apple does an excellent job managing memory on their devices. I'm still running the iPhone 4 and really have no complaints other then wanting SIRI. Unix based operating systems are very stable and handle memory very well in my opinion.
 
richardsonrs said:
You people need to learn how to close some apps and hard restart your phone from time to time. I have 6 tabs open on my safari right now and am easily swapping back and forth with no refreshes on an old iphone 5. Learn to use the app closing function then get back to us.

Have 9 tabs open now. No refreshing.
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Close safari, use other apps and get back to safari after a while.
I'm sure the pages will refresh.
 
iBlazed said:
The iphone 4 was 3 years old by the time iOS 7 was released. Try updating your 3 year old android phone. I swear Apple users are so spoiled...
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YES this times a million....

Android devices are virtually disposable. You may get one software upgrade if you are lucky and chances are it will screw up the device anyway. 5S with 1GB of ram is a better experience than any Android I've used with up to 3GB of ram.

Mainstream consumers don't even know what ram is. Their only concern is that their new iPhone will access Facebook, Twitter and iMessage. They wouldn't know what an app reloading even means.

Apple designs their devices for mainstream consumers, not us geeks on MacRumors. The iPhone 6 with 1GB of ram (if true) will sell better than any other iPhone to date.

The consumers who the iPhone was and is designed for don't care about ram, they care that the OS looks familiar and that they can FaceTime with their friends.

I am not saying power users don't have a right to be concerned about a 1GB limitation, but I am saying Apple doesn't care or design with you in mind. Their target audience is grandma and teenage girls.
 
I was dead set on an iPhone 6, but I might get a Nexus if this is true. 1GB RAM does not cut it at all, especially with the screen getting bigger and app graphics becoming higher resolution. The app refresh is annoying and uses unnecessary LTE bandwidth.

Of course this rumor doesn't seem that credible, what if there are two of those chips in there? Or hopefully the 5.5 is real and has 2GB of RAM, because I'm not buying a 4.7 if 5.5 exists.
 
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