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Maybe one of the reasons it's hard to parallelize is that the refresh operation requires electricity, and there's obviously a limit on how much of that it can u
by why_only_15 8y ago
Maybe one of the reasons it's hard to parallelize is that the refresh operation requires electricity, and there's obviously a limit on how much of that it can use.
- kingosticks 8y agoIt's because of the grid layout where the sense amps are shared between rows. Thus you can fundamentally only refresh one row at a time. Wikipedia has a good page on DRAM refresh.