Micron Kicks Off Mass Production of 12 Gb DRAM Chips

Re:Micron Kicks Off Mass Production of 12 Gb DRAM Chips by monocasa on Thursday November 08, 2018 @01:41PM (#18408695)

Google produces their own sticks anyway.

At one point they were taking chips that had failed manufacturers QA, sticking them on DIMMs themselves in a way so that the ECC would cover those errors, and just running jobs on many machines to make up for the reduced ability of ECC to make guarantees.

And the make their own motherboards too, so just soldering down LPDDR isn't out of the question.

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Re:Micron Kicks Off Mass Production of 12 Gb DRAM Chips by Rychard on Thursday November 08, 2018 @03:11PM (#18409526)

Wow, this sounds really interesting.

Do you have a link where I can read more about this?

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Re:Micron Kicks Off Mass Production of 12 Gb DRAM Chips by monocasa on Thursday November 08, 2018 @03:25PM (#18409654)

It's nearly impossible to find. Google's paper put out by an intern right after that DRAM errors are way bigger than expected (yeah no shit if they're pulling this crap) dominates the results.

For a while I thought I was going crazy, but a comment from someone on this article implies he saw the same slide deck. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/10/dram-... I haven't been able to get anyone to reconfirm it from Google's end, my sense is that it's information that wasn't supposed to be released.

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