[sharpneli]

In 2020 Apple invented unified memory?

More seriously people need to stop with the Apple comparisons. Unified memory has been a thing for a way longer time. Heck around 2014 AMD had integrated GPUs with not just unified memory but fully unified address spaces with the host. Unified memory in itself happened way before that.

Not to mention that mobiles have always been unified archs. It’s just a design decision.

[captainbland]

Even the Xbox 360 had unified memory. It's old as the hills at this point.

[muziq]

The original Xbox was UMA..

[ly3xqhl8g9]

Ian Buck's 2004 prediction is still 10 years before 2014. I did not say Apple invented unified memory, it just got popular with Apple Silicon, and looking at local LLM inference on M1/M2 and the 192 GB of memory M2 Ultra allows, it will surely get more important.

[kkielhofner]

More recent but the ARM based Nvidia Jetson line of hardware has had unified memory since 2017.