Microchip SMC 1000 8x25G enables 4x bandwidth for CPUs

[HEXUS]

Serial memory controller quadruples memory channels to CPUs via the OMI standard.

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[philehidiot]

Extra bandwidth?

Are you calling my band fat? Cheeky sods.

[DevDrake]

Puzzle as independence - where possibility of placing a puzzle is determined by his neighbors. The guys in marketing don't care or I am missing the clu?

[albert89]

The biggest winner here is AMD.

[3dcandy]

The biggest winner here is AMD.

Will be if they leverage this and many cores at a decent price, say in the new threadrippers

[Tabbykatze]

IBM have just moved to this, if AMD can leverage this properly, they may bring competition to P9 and P10 processors in the small socket ranges.

[Xlucine]

So to minimise the pins needed on the socket, they're running a few high-frequency pins out to this northbridge and then many, low frequency tracks across the board to RAM? I guess SoCs were just a fad

A DDRX-agnostic memory interface on chips could lead us back to motherboard manufacturers choosing which RAM type to support (i.e. choose between DDR3 or DDR4 boards, with the same CPU and a different northbridge).