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What they were providing sounded fairly niche in the Chipsandcheese interview. Terabytes of DRAM on an entirely different protocol than DDR (less "stressed" wit
by Fade_Dance 1y ago
What they were providing sounded fairly niche in the Chipsandcheese interview. Terabytes of DRAM on an entirely different protocol than DDR (less "stressed" with robust interconnects and a higher signal integrity - which I would assume necessarily comes with a higher cost for boards and silicon real estate), strongly parallel and specifically designed to improve signal quality/reroute around bad connections, and generally hyper focus on uptime for mission critical massive in memory databases.
I've never understood why these processors really exist before, but I think that makes sense.
The traditional Z mainframes (focused on uptime to the point where everything is hot swappable while running and redundant) I did understand as probably having some valid use deep inside the financial system and defense, but the enterprise facing solutions like power I never really got.
Anyway if anyone has more to add I'd like to hear it. Is my first paragraph mostly it?