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> I'm confident we'll see memory-on-chip within the next few years. Depending on what you mean by "memory-on-chip" we've already seen this with AMD's Fiji (201
by kllrnohj 5y ago
> I'm confident we'll see memory-on-chip within the next few years.
Depending on what you mean by "memory-on-chip" we've already seen this with AMD's Fiji (2015) & Vega (2017) line of GPUs which used on-package memory in the form of HBM/HBM2 memory ( https://www.anandtech.com/show/9390/the-amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-review/3 https://www.anandtech.com/show/9390/the-amd-radeon-r9-fury-x... and https://www.anandtech.com/show/11717/the-amd-radeon-rx-vega-64-and-56-review/2 https://www.anandtech.com/show/11717/the-amd-radeon-rx-vega-... ).
It was incredibly fast, but also very expensive and limiting in SKU configurations. The resulting 16GB SKU for the Vega 56/64, for example, made basically nobody happy. It was too much for gamers, who then didn't want to pay money for something that didn't help, and it wasn't enough for the professional crowd, who were getting used to 24GB offerings from Nvidia.
> Actually isn't that already the case for mobile CPU's?
Nope. They "just" replace the slot with solder more or less. It's still externally packaged DRAM modules.