Yeah, the iMac Pro has the Xeon W and ECC. T'would be nice if the Apple Silicon MacBook Pro had it. There's not much of a reason to pay for the Pro over the Air. But like Linus, I'm going to blame Intel for this situation in the market. Maybe Apple will strike out on its own with Apple Silicon but since their dominant use case is phones, I'll not hold my breath.
Unless something weird happens, the next generation of the Apple M-line will use LPDDR5 memory instead of the LPDDR4X used in the Apple M1. While it probably won't support error correction monitoring, LPDDR5 has built in error correction that silently corrects single bit flips. That alone should be a huge reliability improvement.
LPDDR5 will enable some much needed level of error correction in a metric ton of other future SoC designs too. I look forward to the future Raspberry Pi with built in error correction capabilities.
Yes, this applies to both DDR5 and LPDDR5. Leaks indicate that DDR5 CPUs and motherboards by Intel and AMD are not going to be out this year though, at least not on the desktop.
