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Its not integrated to the SoC, it is soldered to the mainboard though.

The memory is not integrated into the SoC die itself, but it is packaged alongside the SoC rather than being separately mounted.

At Apple scale I would have thought that makes it cheaper, not more expensive.

I wouldn’t know honestly, it’s not one of my “special” areas of interest so I lack the knowledge haha.

I’m just mates with a dude who’s been an Apple hardware engineer for a long time.