Without reading the article, I always quickly estimate what a DRAM based in-memory database would cost. You build a mesh network of FPGA PCBs with 12 x 12.5 Gbp

Without reading the article, I always quickly estimate what a DRAM based in-memory database would cost. You build a mesh network of FPGA PCBs with 12 x 12.5 Gbps links interconnecting them. Each $100 FPGA has 25 GB/s DDR3 or DDR2 controllers with up to 256 GB. DDR3 DIM have been less than $1 per GB for many years. 6.4x($100+256x4x$1)=$7,193.6 worst case pricing So this database would cost less than $8000 in DRAM chips hardware and can be searched/indexed in parallel in much less than a second. Now you can buy old DDR2 chips harvested from ewaste at less than $1 per GB, so this database could cost as low as $1000 including the labour for harvesting. You can make a wafer scale integration with SRAM that holds around 1 terabyte SRAM for $30K including mask set costs. This database would cost you $210.000. Note that SRAM is much faster than DDR DRAM. You would need 15000/7 customers of this size database to cover the manufacturing of the wafers. I'm sure there are more than 2143 customers that would buy such a database. Please invest in my company, I need 450,000,000 up front to manufacture these 1 terabyte wafers in a single batch. We will sprinkle in the million core small reconfigurable processors[1] in between the terabyte SRAM for free. For the observant: we have around 50 trillion transistors[2] to play with on a 300mm wafer. Our secret sauce is a 2 transistor design making SRAM 5 times denser that Apple Silicon SRAM densities at 3nm on their M4. Actually we would not need reconfigurable processors, we would intersperse Morphle Logic in between the SRAM. Now you could reprogram the search logic to do video compression/decompression or encryption by reconfiguring the logic pattern[3]. Total search of each byte would be a few hundred nanoseconds. The IRAM paper from 1997 mentions 180nm. These wafers cost $750 today (including mask set and profit margin) and now you would need less than a million investment up front to start mass manufactoring. You just would need 3600 times the wafer amount compared to the latest 3nm transistor density on a wafer. [1] Intelligent RAM (IRAM): chips that remember and compute (1997) https://sci-hub.ru/10.1109/ISSCC.1997.585348 https://sci-hub.ru/10.1109/ISSCC.1997.585348 [2] Merik Voswinkel - Smalltalk and Self Hardware https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbqKClBwFwI&t=262s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbqKClBwFwI&t=262s [3] Morphle Logic https://github.com/fiberhood/MorphleLogic/blob/main/README_MORPHLE_LOGIC.md https://github.com/fiberhood/MorphleLogic/blob/main/README_M...