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I have been stating this for at least 12+ years now. On HN and in many places. And it is still not common knowledge. Hopefully this article get spread and repos
by ksec 2y ago
I have been stating this for at least 12+ years now. On HN and in many places. And it is still not common knowledge. Hopefully this article get spread and reposted many times in the future.
DRAM isn't getting (much) cheaper. And it will continue to be the case in next 10 years. Considering there is nothing on the roadmap to suggest any breakthrough.
People old enough may remember in the late 00s and even up to mid 10s, there are words like we will get 16GB computer as baseline, or I could work with 64GB soon.
Reality is that DRAM price has fluctuate lately within the same range in the past ~13 years. It was only in 2023 the price floor broke through the $2/GB barrier.
Unless we somehow found a way that could magically shrink the capacitor by a substantial amount. Or we change the way we do programming.
- DaoVeles 2y agoIt was the latest console generation that merely doubled the RAM from the previous generation that showed this in action. That plus silly things like Macbooks with 8GB base line for over a decade.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoOn the other hand, my home workstation has 128GB of memory, for something like $300. That is so much capacity 99% of the time I no longer have to even consider doing something stupid on a data processing task, it just works. It is too early for me to imagine what capabilities are unlocked if I personally had say 1TB of memory, but large RAM capacities seem only required for mammoth database servers.