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I believe it’s a limitation of the memory controller on the M4 chip. It can only address 32 gb of ram. Addressing more ram would require more die space
I hope not. This is a parallel product line instead of a successor then. Not what anyone was anticipating or looking forward to.
Apple's on their fourth generation of in-house processors for Macs. By now, the pattern is quite clear: They have several tiers of processor. Not all products offer all tiers of chip. The iMac and MacBook Air have never been offered with anything other than the base M-whatever chip, and the Mac Studio has only been offered with the Max and Ultra processors.