> But why?

So they don't have to stop producing machines entirely because they've run out of RAM chips. The problem they have is with supply not demand.

They don't use ram chips?

	▲	nicoburns 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They do. They just solder them onto their SOCs (as part of the manufacturing process of the SOC). But they can't do that if they haven't got any.
	▲	piskov 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It is still ram, not some magic thing Still LPDDR