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It takes light 1 ns to travel 30 cm (i.e. 1 standard body part / foot). So getting much faster must mean getting closer. I reckon it is only feasible if the RAM
by pletnes 7y ago
It takes light 1 ns to travel 30 cm (i.e. 1 standard body part / foot). So getting much faster must mean getting closer. I reckon it is only feasible if the RAM crawls into the CPU.
- jessermeyer 7y ago>I reckon it is only feasible if the RAM crawls into the CPU. reply And God said, "Let there be Cache." And there was Cache.
- earenndil 7y agoI think the proposal is to solder an entire stick of ram onto the CPU.
- magicalhippo 7y agoOr CPU onto the RAM stick... https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/02/23/promises-challenges-ahead-near-memory-memory-processing/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/02/23/promises-challenges-...
- yellowapple 7y agoFrom A Certain Point Of View™, this is what the RPi and SO-PINE compute modules are, except unfortunately they're no longer usable as memory modules per se.
- fgonzag 7y agoSo a level 4 cache?
- agumonkey 7y agolet's have memory sockets behind the cpu motherboard area !