That would be fine. But as long as it can use it as RAM and not just a staging ground.
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brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 months agoEventually most system RAM will have to be packaged anyway. Physics dictate you pay a penalty having it go over pins and mobo traces, and it gets more severe with every advancement.
It’s possible that external RAM will eventually evolve into a “2nd tier” of system memory, for background processes, spillover, inactive programs/data, things like that).
slacktoid@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Keep in mind that it would be pretty slow, as it doesn’t make sense to burn power and die area on a wide secondary bus.
leisesprecher@feddit.org 2 months ago
It’s already fourth tier after L1, L2, L3 caches.
Maybe something like optane will make a comeback. Having 16gb of soldered RAM and 500gb of relatively slow, but inexpensive optane RAM would be great.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
DRAM is so cheap and ubiquitous that they will probably keep using that, barring any massive breakthroughs. The “persistence after power-off” is nice to have, but not strictly needed.