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High Apple memory prices may be due, in part, to extensive memory testing at the memory supplier to weed out bad or unreliable memory.  Apple may also specify a low die defect level that rules out many memory chips on the wafer.  I was once responsible for worldwide memory quality for a major computer manufacturer and we took the same approach.  

I appreciated this article.  I’ve worked in the Quantum Computing industry and am glad to see Apple’s effort to try to get ahead of the threats.  

I don't think Apple is interested in, or should be interested in, competing with ChatGPT or Google Bard or any other LLMs.  It's a race nobody can win, and it is not aligned with Apple's core mission.  It seems likely to me that Apple will apply Machine Learning, aka Artificial Intelligence, in places where it can add direct value to Apple products.  Search is not one of those places and, as we have seen, is a magnet for antitrust legislation.  Analysis of heart rhythms, blood pressure or blood glucose detection, improved crash detection, speech recognition, and facial identifications are a few examples of product features that might improve by application of new machine learning technology.  No doubt there are more applications that align with Apple's product mission.

As a user, I am not particularly invested with Siri, and I don't need it write Python code, or translate Plato's Republic to another language.  Honestly, if it can tell me what the temperature in Minneapolis is, I'm happy enough.  Siri is not meant to be a key competitive element, as far as I can tell.