Comment Re:How about Intergated PC on a chip instead? (Score 1) 113
But that wouldn't fix memory bandwidth and speed issues. That's the real crux of current computing. We have 1GHz chips but memory running at 133MHz... Most modern CPUs have a theoretical peak execution rate over 1 GFLOPS, but only enough memory bandwidth to do a small fraction of that.
I didn't say that this was for tomorrow, and I totally agree that 128MB RAM would make the die way too big and hot in the foreseeable future. But, I never meant for all of the system memory to be on the die. A 16MB buffer on-die would be a big help for most applications.
You can't argue with Moore's law, and in 6 years, fabrication processes WILL be down 4x, which is about 0.05 microns and from some of the research that I've read about technology exists that can achieve this. So I expect that in half a decade it will be perfected enough to be a viable mass market solution. If it doesn't happen in 5 years it will then in 10, but whatever the time frame I believe it will happen.
I didn't say that this was for tomorrow, and I totally agree that 128MB RAM would make the die way too big and hot in the foreseeable future. But, I never meant for all of the system memory to be on the die. A 16MB buffer on-die would be a big help for most applications.
You can't argue with Moore's law, and in 6 years, fabrication processes WILL be down 4x, which is about 0.05 microns and from some of the research that I've read about technology exists that can achieve this. So I expect that in half a decade it will be perfected enough to be a viable mass market solution. If it doesn't happen in 5 years it will then in 10, but whatever the time frame I believe it will happen.
