I’m not much of a hardware person but I was wondering why not do the opposite? P... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		manav on Aug 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Upmem Puts CPUs Inside Memory to Allow Application... I’m not much of a hardware person but I was wondering why not do the opposite? Pair a massive amount of SRAM/DRAM with a normal cpu as l2+ cache. Or is that what they are essentially doing?

vvanders on Aug 22, 2019 [–]

SRAM and DRAM are two totally different things.

An L2 cache is just a huge chunk of SRAM, they take more die space and use a lot more power at the benefit of running with lower latency.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact