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

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 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.