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Computer RAM gets biggest upgrade in 25 years but it may be too little, too late — LPCAMM2 won't stop Apple, Intel and AMD from integrating memory directly on the CPU (www.techradar.com)
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Computer RAM gets biggest upgrade in 25 years but it may be too little, too late — LPCAMM2 won't stop Apple, Intel and AMD from integrating memory directly on the CPU::LPCAMM2 is a revolution in RAM, but it faces an uphill struggle

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[–] QuarterSwede 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Right, it s a physics issue, not greed. I mean, they’re going to make a margin off of it for sure but that’s not the sole reason to do this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm imagining a world with desktops and laptops that have On-CPU-RAM and On-Motherboard-RAM with the traditionally slotted RAM acting as a swap for the On-CPU-RAM.

I mean, isn't that in principle how old swaps traditionally work? They take up some space on your slower disk drive to "swap" data from RAM onto when out of RAM. On-Motherboard-RAM, since it's slower than On-CPU-RAM, could achieve the same purpose, meaning limited On-CPU-RAM wouldn't be as impactful.

[–] Plopp 4 points 11 months ago

Greed might not be the main driving force, but it's absolutely there too. I predict on-cpu ram costing more than it should in the future due to lack of competition. (yes I know there aren't that many manufacturers of the actual chips even today when the consumers can choose from many brands of ram sticks)