By: Mr. Camel (a.delete@this.b.c), May 1, 2013 1:12 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
David Kanter (dkanter.delete@this.realworldtech.com) on April 23, 2013 8:14 am wrote:
> I just posted a new article online:
>
> Graphics is a focal point of the upcoming Haswell platform, necessitating a high bandwidth memory
> solution. To deliver high performance Intel is returning to the DRAM market, which it exited in
> 1985. The memory that ships with Haswell will be a custom embedded DRAM mounted in the package and
> manufactured on a variant of Intel’s 22nm process. By avoiding the commodity memory market, Intel
> will preserve high margins by cannibalizing discrete GPUs and dedicated graphics memory.
>
> http://www.realworldtech.com/intel-dram/
>
> As always, I encourage discussion, so let the fun begin!
>
> David
This seems to support Intel's massive investment in 14 nm manufacturing capacity - Broadwell probably makes heavy use of eDRAM and Intel will need the capacity to ramp Broadwell into high volume production.
> I just posted a new article online:
>
> Graphics is a focal point of the upcoming Haswell platform, necessitating a high bandwidth memory
> solution. To deliver high performance Intel is returning to the DRAM market, which it exited in
> 1985. The memory that ships with Haswell will be a custom embedded DRAM mounted in the package and
> manufactured on a variant of Intel’s 22nm process. By avoiding the commodity memory market, Intel
> will preserve high margins by cannibalizing discrete GPUs and dedicated graphics memory.
>
> http://www.realworldtech.com/intel-dram/
>
> As always, I encourage discussion, so let the fun begin!
>
> David
This seems to support Intel's massive investment in 14 nm manufacturing capacity - Broadwell probably makes heavy use of eDRAM and Intel will need the capacity to ramp Broadwell into high volume production.