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Re:Samsung Announces 512GB DDR5 Memory That Is Twice as Fast... by ksec on Thursday March 25, 2021 @02:46PM (#26583860)
> used as System RAM, just as slightly slower System RAM

Intel Optane DIMM and Intel Optane SSD. Although Micron is selling their "Optane" Fab and Intel has yet to announce if they intend to buy it.

>such links might include optical fiber

Intel has been working on this for many years, Silicon Photonics and the goal is to have Compute, Memory and Storage in different "box" or even "Racks".

>can be connected via high-speed serial links

IBM OpenCAPI and OMI. Which allows up to 5PB of memory ( No more Big Data crap ) , and if I remember correctly with additional 10ns latency.

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Re:Samsung Announces 512GB DDR5 Memory That Is Twice as Fast... by dharmab on Thursday March 25, 2021 @03:16PM (#26584222)
> Although Micron is selling their "Optane" Fab and Intel has yet to announce if they intend to buy it.

I have several close friends working at that fab and I am astounded that Micron is both still in business and hasn't caused a chemical disaster in Lehi yet. It's a fantastically mismanaged and unsafe workplace.

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