How DRAM changed the world
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How DRAM changed the world
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Re: How DRAM changed the world
#2Dennard scaling for SRAM has certainly halted, as demonstrated by TSMC’s 3nm process vs 5 nm.
What’s the likely ETA for DRAM?
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#3I miss RAM. I feel like if you lived through that 90s RAM frenzy, you probably miss RAM too. It was crazy how quickly we move through SDRAM/DDR, prices dropped and you could make real increases in performance year over year for not much money. I'm sure some of it was the software being able to capture the hw improvements, but that certainly was my fav period in tech so far.
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#4Dennard scaling for SRAM has certainly halted, as demonstrated by TSMC’s 3nm process vs 5 nm. What’s the likely ETA for DRAM?
Now? Prices have been flat for 15 years and DRAM has been stuck on 10 nm for a while.
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#5Dennard scaling for SRAM has certainly halted, as demonstrated by TSMC’s 3nm process vs 5 nm. What’s the likely ETA for DRAM?
Not soon as DRAM is mostly on older node. But overall cost reduction of DRAM is moving very very slowly.
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#6Dennard scaling for SRAM has certainly halted, as demonstrated by TSMC’s 3nm process vs 5 nm. What’s the likely ETA for DRAM?
Now? Prices have been flat for 15 years and DRAM has been stuck on 10 nm for a while.
That's overstating the flatness of prices. In 2009, the best price recorded here was 10 dollars per gigabyte:
https://jcmit.net/memoryprice.htm
Recently DDR4 RAM is available at well under $2/GB, some closer to $1/GB.
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#7I miss RAM. I feel like if you lived through that 90s RAM frenzy, you probably miss RAM too. It was crazy how quickly we move through SDRAM/DDR, prices dropped and you could make real increases in performance year over year for not much money. I'm sure some of it was the software being able to capture the hw improvements, but that certainly was my fav period in tech so far.
Nah the biggest jump in performance by far was SSDs. It was a huge step so software had no chance to "catch up" initially.
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#8I miss RAM. I feel like if you lived through that 90s RAM frenzy, you probably miss RAM too. It was crazy how quickly we move through SDRAM/DDR, prices dropped and you could make real increases in performance year over year for not much money. I'm sure some of it was the software being able to capture the hw improvements, but that certainly was my fav period in tech so far.
Getting a new stick of RAM was so damn exciting in the 90s.
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#9"8K video recording" - does anyone really need this? Seems like for negligible gain in quality people are pushed to sacrifice their storage & battery, and so upgrade their hardware sooner...
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#10The article doesn't properly explain how DRAM is different from SRAM.
DRAM has to constantly refresh itself in order not to 'forget' its contents.