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I find it fascinating how inexpensive CPU processors really are. You pay approximately same amount of money for top-of-the-consumer-line processor as you pay fo
by dirtyaura 9y ago
I find it fascinating how inexpensive CPU processors really are. You pay approximately same amount of money for top-of-the-consumer-line processor as you pay for 32GB of RAM or 1TB SSD drive. Modern consumer GPUs are twice as expensive.
- ktta 9y agoWell the problem might be price fixing of RAM (speculation, btw). There's competition in CPU world but its a different matter in the RAM/HDD world. RAM has actually been getting more expensive. https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/6xth78/is_ram_just_gonna_keep_on_getting_more_expensive/ https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/6xth78/is_ram_jus...
- wtallis 9y agoSix-core Coffee Lake is 151 mm^2. 1TB of 64L 3D NAND flash is 1888 mm^2. 32GB of 21nm DDR4 is 1715 mm^2. CPUs are way more complicated to design, but once they're in production, you get a lot of them per wafer.