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There is a world where scale and experience means it's about the same though, is the thing. And memory is already expensive. It's downright hard to even get it
by XorNot 7d ago
There is a world where scale and experience means it's about the same though, is the thing.
And memory is already expensive. It's downright hard to even get it though - you frequently would prefer not what's cheapest, but whatever is in largest scale production.
- Dylan16807 7d agoScale and experience almost entirely share between HBM and normal memory. And they're both in large-enough scale production to not have a big difference on availability; if you're willing to pay HBM prices you should find even more sellers of DDR. The only way I see HBM becoming competitive for consumer CPUs is if they solve the yield issues. Or if AI crashes so hard that people are putting those GPUs on fire sale and salvaging mass quantities of HBM off of them.
- zeristor 7d agoI was thinking this, but I doubt that the HBM is so easy to repurpose. I’m assuming that it’s mounted in the same unit as the GPU, not in a handy-dandy socket. It could be cracked open and extracted no doubt but if it’s glued in that’s going to be nigh on impossible to extract. I had been pinning my hopes on HBM coming onto the second hand markets after there three years or so of use, perhaps I’m wrong.
- pixl97 7d agoIt seems unlikely as the entire machines with HBM on them are apt to be sold whole on the market and snapped up quickly. With how much demand is in the current market machines 3 years old may not be sold if they can't get newer faster machines fast enough.