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New 'DRAM+' memory designed to provide DRAM performance with SSD-like storage capabilities, uses FeRAM tech
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Yeah, it’s a solution in search of a problem.
Is it much cheaper than DRAM? Great! But until then, even if it’s lower power due to not needing the refresh, flash is just so cheap that it can scale up much better.
And I dunno what they mean by AI workloads. How would non volatility help at all, unless it’s starting to approach SRAM performance.
Some embedded stuff could use it, but that’s not a huge margin market.
Optane was sorta interesting because it was ostensibly cheaper and higher capacity than DRAM, albeit not enough.
Didn’t Intel do this with 3D cross point or something like that? Then it failed and was repurposed to optane, which also flopped?
Yes because ultimately, it just wasn't good enough.
That's what I was trying to argue below. Unified memory is great if it's dense and fast enough, but that's a massive if.