Article: AMD's Mobile Strategy
By: Michael S (already5chosen.delete@this.yahoo.com), January 6, 2012 6:35 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Ricardo B (ricardo.b@xxxxx.xxxx) on 1/6/12 wrote:
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>Michael S (already5chosen@yahoo.com) on 1/5/12 wrote:
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>>The problem is - the latency would be, may be, 1.5 times better than main memory
>>in single-socket configuration. So, it almost for sure not worth the trouble in
>>1-2 socket configurations. As to 4-8 sockets, if you are going to increase your
>>CPU pin count then it could be preferable, instead of spending them to L4 cache,
>>to add few more inter-processor links or memory channels.
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>Single socket latency DRAM is in the 40-50 ns range nowadays.
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>10 ns or less seems quite feasible with SRAM through a parallel interface.
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10ns is not feasible. 25ns - may be, but even that is hard.
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>Michael S (already5chosen@yahoo.com) on 1/5/12 wrote:
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>>The problem is - the latency would be, may be, 1.5 times better than main memory
>>in single-socket configuration. So, it almost for sure not worth the trouble in
>>1-2 socket configurations. As to 4-8 sockets, if you are going to increase your
>>CPU pin count then it could be preferable, instead of spending them to L4 cache,
>>to add few more inter-processor links or memory channels.
>
>Single socket latency DRAM is in the 40-50 ns range nowadays.
>
>10 ns or less seems quite feasible with SRAM through a parallel interface.
>
10ns is not feasible. 25ns - may be, but even that is hard.