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Chinese engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully upgrade RAM and SSD

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Re: Chinese engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully upgrade RAM and SSD

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A little more details on how would be nice.

What kind of details? It's all pictured really - find the memory or storage chips, replace the chips. It's difficult/impossible without specialised tools, but nice that the OS accepts this modification without throwing a wobbly.

Re: Chinese engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully upgrade RAM and SSD

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There's not much evidence that any upgrade actually happened. The photo show someone has managed to desolder the RAM & SSD chips, which isn't really news.

Also, looks like they only upgrade the 8GB/256SSD to 16G/1TB SSD, which is a supported configuration, so at best this is someone skilled at soldering BGA parts.

I'd be more interested if someone had managed to get 32GB RAM working.

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