[HN Gopher] In the future even your RAM will have firmware; and ...
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       In the future even your RAM will have firmware; and the subject of
       POWER10 blobs
        
       Author : hlandau
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2021-02-04 21:09 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | KirillPanov wrote:
       | Everything old is new again. They tried this with FB-DIMMs in the
       | early 2000s and it didn't go well:
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_Buffered_DIMM
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       | That SERDES chip unavoidably increases latency, roughly doubling
       | it. This isn't likely to catch on as the only kind of DRAM in the
       | system; latency is too important.
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       | Maybe we'll see successful systems with two levels of DRAM: small
       | low-latency parallel DRAM and a large heap of higher-latency
       | serial DRAMs. That's plausible.
        
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