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Re:DDR5 memory is on its way, twice as fast as DDR4 by petra on Friday March 31, 2017 @12:52PM (#14005640)
If heat is the problem, and since the memory wall is a 20-year problem, was there some new cooling tech ? or is it just standard industry inertia(and just being satisfied with half solutions) ?
Re:DDR5 memory is on its way, twice as fast as DDR4 by dom0 on Friday March 31, 2017 @01:51PM (#14006231)
No, it's a fundamental issue with the technology. Roughly, the ratio of power density to capacity-that-can-hold-information-for-a-refresh-interval stays more or less constant, independent of fab node. In fact, newer generations (DDR3, DDR4) have been pushing it here (cf. rowhammer).

I doubt we will see a drastic improvement in DRAM latency unless the underlying process changes a lot (i.e. different physical storage mechanism or very different manufacturing).