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Scale 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 ava
by Dylan16807 5d ago
Scale 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 5d 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 5d 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.