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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by chemmail on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @10:54PM (#25055351)
Nand is nonvolatile and the tradeoff with that is write cycles. We have an inbetween in the form of 3D Xpoint (Optane), Intel is still trying to figure out the best way to use it. It currently like an L6 cache after system DRAM.
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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by thu2111 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @10:03AM (#25058917)
Well not just Intel. Optane is a new point in the memory hierarchy. That has a lot of implications for how software is designed, it's not something Intel can do all by itself.
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