Tracy R Reed wrote:
Does anyone with more knowledge of hardware than I consider this
significant? How much RAM could they fit on the chip if instead of
making it quad-core they just made it dual-core and used the rest of the
chip real estate for RAM? Since we don't use much of our CPU power as it
is and are almost always IO bound investing in RAM instead of cores
could be a really great way to improve performance:
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/06/19/intel.on.cpu.ram.discovery/
Wow. RAM on cpu, 8-16 cores coming... LEARN ERLANG AND HASKELL!
Neither a breakthrough nor new--just breathless PR. On the very oldest
DRAM's the capacitor was a transistor.
And HP had DRAM on PA-RISC before Carly was stupid enough to believe
Intel/Itanium PR.
When some company finally says either "We replaced our DRAM completely
with FLASH" or "We replaced our DRAM completely with SRAM", then you
should start getting excited.
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