I’ve read that ai chips can’t be used for anything but ai, but maybe that ram will hit the market and be useful for something.
I’ve read that ai chips can’t be used for anything but ai, but maybe that ram will hit the market and be useful for something.
Ildsaye@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
There will be a need for mass desoldering shops to transfer the ram ICs off of the datacenter boards and onto consumer ram wafers
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
They literally have boards with soldered RAM? Onto consumer RAM wafers? You mean like gold bonding or something? Like the whole wafer is used or are the RAM ICs tiny? I guess I never thought about it.
Ildsaye@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
Optimal ram speed is obtained by having the ram ICs soldered directly on the mainboard, as close to the (also soldered) cpu as possible, at the cost of easy upgradability - an easy choice for those who only think of the next quarter.
So, I mean the ram ICs can have the solder joints attaching them to datacenter boards melted, and the ICs can be resoldered to the standard ram sticks consumers use in their PCs and laptops. This can be done with home equipment, but not efficiently.