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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

www.techradar.com 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

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

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both techniques will obviously need to coexist for some time. they dont have logistics on large memory near the processor,. quite yet, so there is still a place for ram.
- I'd argue that they do have the logistics down pretty well at this point as HBM3E can squeeze 144Gb onto a package.
  
  That makes it sound like they'll probably use software locks on one die to restrict RAM.
  Downloadmoreram.com could become a reality!
  
  Almost a zero percent chance that will happen as HBM is a stack of DRAM dies, capacity can be reduced by omitting additional dies. If the DRAM were directly integrated into the CPU's die then maybe we could see software locks however historically that would be accomplished by physically laser cutting the traces (unless you are AMD and forget to with the K10.5)
- Yes, and are they able to fit 16gig on there or 64.. as 16 seems to be the minimum for a proper system nowadays. 8 is only fine if you use it for some browsing and video.

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