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JEDEC Extends DDR5 Memory Spec to 8800 MT/S, Adds Anti-Rowhammer Features

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Re: JEDEC Extends DDR5 Memory Spec to 8800 MT/S, Adds Anti-Rowhammer Features

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I'm always a fan of bigger numbers, but I wish more time/money/whatever was put into letting DDR5 run at those XMP/EXPO speeds when using 4 DIMMs.

How do you expect that to happen? By sharing memory channels you are no longer using a point to point connection and are now prone to reflections in the PCB traces where you have split the signal. There is no "money" that can be put into this, that won't also improve the performance of the single DIMM per channel setup disproportionately. I don't even understand what your point is. Quad channel support would be a muc…

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Re: JEDEC Extends DDR5 Memory Spec to 8800 MT/S, Adds Anti-Rowhammer Features

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

And potentially opens a whole new family of side channels.

I wish we could mix 'I don't care about side channels, use them all' with 'I'm paranoid about side channels, plug them all' on the same machine. Disable speculative execution on one core, no frequency adjustment, no prefetching, sr-io/pcie-bypass some devices... E-cores but for the side-channel-paranoid (in a good way).

Host cores and guest cores.
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