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Frankly I believe that Intel could sell processors now with ten times more cache per core, and the queue for them at $50,000 a socket would be just immense. I
by amygdyl 9y ago
Frankly I believe that Intel could sell processors now with ten times more cache per core, and the queue for them at $50,000 a socket would be just immense.
I probably underestimate the likely cost by several times and then the cooling would be a great science fiction set properly to 1:12 scale, but I certainly know businesses who have a real desire for a product like that.
Am I missing a showstopper preventing the possibility? I'm not going to be persuaded that it couldn't be done by mere impracticalities. I'm quite prepared to take heatsinks the size of Cantelupes...
- microcolonel 9y agoThe problem with huge caches is actually that access latency grows with the physical distance of the cache lines from the pipelines. This is why typically you see them adding new cache levels, instead of drastically expanding the size of the cache, especially the lower level caches (L1 and L2).