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You’d probably still need an L1 cache. L2 and L3 might be superfluous or you could have massive L2/L3 caches made with this rather than traditional SRAM that si
by vlovich123 3y ago
You’d probably still need an L1 cache. L2 and L3 might be superfluous or you could have massive L2/L3 caches made with this rather than traditional SRAM that sit internally within the CPU to avoid the memory bus. Contention for the memory bus could also be a reason to still have SRAM caches that are slower than main memory.
Shifts like this are so impactful it’s hard to predict exactly what good designs will look like until we’ve had 5-10 years hands on for the industry to shake out how the Hw topology will looks like (maybe more since HW dev cycles prevent fast iteration and testing of ideas)