Really large caches

[somerandomguy]

With the development of <A HREF="http://www.mosys.com/product_set.html" target="_new">1T-SRAM</A> (memory that is supposed to be as fast as SRAM, but almost as cheap as DRAM) that is used as cache in the GameCube’s GPU, and <A HREF="http://www.matrixsemi.com/3dtech.shtml?26" target="_new">Matrix’s multi-layer fabrication method</A>, do you think we’re getting to the stage when very large on-die caches will replace external RAM?
I can just imagine a graphics chip or CPU with 64MB of on-die cache.




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[FatBurger]

That would be very nice to see. Of course, we'd probably have a transitional period of going back to slot processors

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[svol]

Woaw! A CPU for the PC with 64 MB cache, that's more memory then my video card has, I wanna have them if they come. If they place about 256 MB on it you almost wouldn't need some extra RAM .

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[jclw]

I don't know about on die, but I think we'll see large L3 caches made out of that or similar memory rather soon...

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[somerandomguy]

Perhaps using Intel’s new packaging to put it all on the same chip, without it being on-die? That way we could have large off-die level 3 caches without needing slots.

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