Read more.May allow chip makers to "put the power of a supercomputer in your hand".
Read more.May allow chip makers to "put the power of a supercomputer in your hand".
Stacking seems a really good idea for things like flash chips. I don't see how it can work for a desktop CPU though, where you already have a problem getting rid of all the heat.
Perhaps if the CPUs are all very low power then you could stack a lot of them, but then you can only run your three versions of Crysis at lowest settings.
Hmm, reminds me of the t-1000's cpu from terminator 2
i wonder whqt is the difference between rram and sram memory production. i suppose rram is more expensive as sram is currently manufactured memory.
as for heat concerns, its quiet ok if they stack the cpu on the memory - memory is not heating that much so it should be acceptable.
yet there is another question, does rram will survive cpu heat?
We have 3d memory in production already. doing that for cpu was obvious, knowing how it works for memory. i am just supprised it is not from intell nor ibm. are they slacking off with R&D?
lol, OK let me put it another way.
Take just 4 Intel CPUs, make them 45W power efficient ones to make it easier. That is a total of 180W, and still not a "supercomputer in your hand". Drop the power consumption to Atom cpu levels and, well, I can't imagine any number of those CPUs that I would call a supercomputer.
So "Supercomputer in your hand, apart from that big radiator, coolant pump and reservoir it has to be plumbed into" I can accept, but it isn't a useful step forward.
You hear of research in this sort of stuff that gets you eg a stacked CPU, flash, ram and radio circuit so you can make a really small mobile device. I suppose that doesn't grab the headlines (or clicks) and get you future funding though.
I'm sure Cambridge university had done this over a year ago..
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