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The only reason ECC is costly is because Intel has a monopoly on the desktop/server chip market and they refuse to deploy ECC to consumer chips. The hardware is
by xenadu02 10y ago
The only reason ECC is costly is because Intel has a monopoly on the desktop/server chip market and they refuse to deploy ECC to consumer chips. The hardware is there, it's just fused disabled.
If ECC were only the cost premium and we assumed a linear relationship then it should cost about 1/8 more than non-ECC DRAM. Unfortunately Intel's decisions have knock-on effects that ripple through the rest of the market.
IIRC I saw somewhere that JDEC expects a future standard will require ECC to get acceptable error rates for all memory. At that point Intel won't have any choice.