[ritwikgupta]

Apple may already be headed in that direction. They already have unified CPU and GPU RAM. It doesn’t seem far-fetched to imagine that they could unify persistent storage and memory.

[znpy]

Knowing apple’s marketing moves, they could definitely do that: just use a single number to describe memory. And then pretend it’s a big number.

[FirmwareBurner]

I can already see it: base 128GB of total system unified memory for your files and data.

[satiric]

Well technically, Intel and AMD both use the regular system RAM for their integrated graphics VRAM, but I see what you mean.

[masklinn]

Intel and AMD also do support unified memory for their integrated graphics. It’s been a while since you needed a statically cordoned-off area of main memory (“shared memory”) for the iGPU to work.

Consoles have been using unified memory since the 8th gen (PS4/XB1/Switch, kinda sorta even WiiU).

And NVidia has CUDA unified-memory slide decks going back at least 5 years.