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Re:Bitcoin mining and energy consumption by em3rgent0rdr on Saturday December 09, 2017 @04:34AM (#15885028)
could you not just add a ton of ram to an ASIC?
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Re:Bitcoin mining and energy consumption by tromp on Sunday December 10, 2017 @09:32AM (#15891515)
128MB is the current limit [1] for embedded DRAM

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDRAM

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