To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
It is becoming possible to have more and more cache on-chip. I predict L3 cache will just merge with general-purpose RAM soon. The marginal improvement in performance from general-purpose DRAM to on-chip L3 cache is shrinking rapidly.
6 posted on
10/04/2012 9:38:54 AM PDT by
backwoods-engineer
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To: backwoods-engineer
It's all about mashing more transistors on the die...see the note about compression just above.
All kinds of little tricks are possible ....
8 posted on
10/04/2012 10:01:32 AM PDT by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
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