the m4 mbp maxes out at 128GB unified memory? lame i want at least 256GB

just occurred to me that in terms of chip architecture, Apple Silicon is Solana (monolithic) and Intel/AMD are Ethereum (modular)

not sure how I feel about this

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yes agreed, it’s not a perfect metaphor by any means and pretty surface level 

it just struck me that broadly speaking the “old” chip architecture (AMD/Intel) is losing market share to the “new” architecture with everything on the SoC (Apple Silicon) and how that mirrored Ethereum’s struggles with its modular approach to scaling vs. Solana this cycle.

Distributed systems are a different beast than unified memory. ZK for ex. is valuable to crypto as a method of proving state over constrained internet bandwidth, but it's useless for CPU cores on the same motherboard. A better analogy is websites IMHO. The era of portals (Yahoo, MSN, AOL) came and went, that was the monolithic architecture, replaced by Google.