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Re:The AMD Radeon Instinct MI300A's Giant Memory Subsystem by manojlds on Saturday January 18, 2025 @01:56PM (#42750477)
It's LPDDR5.
Re:The AMD Radeon Instinct MI300A's Giant Memory Subsystem by ein0p on Saturday January 18, 2025 @07:12PM (#42752524)
That's actually a good thing. That's how you get a ton of DRAM without it costing a fortune. M2 Ultra is able to get GPU-like 800GB/sec with DDR4. From that it follows that if you can design a specialized chip, you can get a respectable 1 TB/sec quite easily with LPDDR5, provided that you're willing to design a chip to support a ton of memory channels (and potentially also a wider memory bus). In fact, I'm baffled that such devices don't already exist outside Apple's product line. Seems like a rather obvious thing to do, and Apple has a "proof of concept" already. I can think of at least four companies off the top of my head that could do it quite easily, besides Apple.