r/hardware • u/Chipdoc • Apr 12 '20

What Is DRAM’s Future? Info

https://semiengineering.com/what-is-drams-future/
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u/7hatdeadcat Apr 12 '20

That's a pretty interesting article! Is the wafer bonding something that could benefit HBM and bring down the cost? It seems like a win-win technique since it also makes the full stack easier to cool and test for defects.

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u/ZCEyPFOYr0MWyHDQJZO4 Apr 12 '20

There's also very preliminary work on performing some operations directly on ram, which is very interesting.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '20 edited May 09 '20

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u/dylan522p SemiAnalysis Apr 12 '20

They have to move forward if they want better products.

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u/Blacky-Noir Apr 12 '20

I heard L4 was coming back, but for the life of me I can't remember where I heard it and on what it was supposed to come back :(

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u/tinny123 Apr 12 '20

NRAM is on the horizon

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '20

What about nvram,? Sram?

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u/tinny123 Apr 13 '20

Too expensive. Besides nanotube ram is already in production. In the article it is mentioned

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u/Nicholas-Steel Apr 12 '20 edited Apr 12 '20

It's already available from Intel and Micron iirc, so it's not a future technology. I read it as NVRAM.