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The article says the whole CPU has like 200MB of memory, so it's not really replacing the RAM already in PCs. Plus this seems focused on AI applications, not general computing.
hits blunt That's just your opinion, man.
And that's fair, at the same time it's still quite new, once it's matured a bit I could definitely see this being how things go until...idk, hardlight computing or w.e
Well, in the meantime, if you want to be angry at lack of upgrade options, we can be angry together at cellphones TODAY. Heck, some laptops too.
So... they'll probably add some slower, larger-capacity memory chips on the side, and then they'll need to copy data back and forth between the slow off-chip memory and the fast on-chip memory... I'm pretty sure they've just invented cache