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slikenlast Sunday at 9:45 AM1 replyview on HN

Sure, you could. The design would do something like:

We need a bigger memory controller.

To get more traces to the memory controller We need more pins on the CPU.

Now need a bigger CPU package to accommodate the pins.

Now we need a motherboard with more traces, which requires more layers, which requires a more expensive motherboard.

We need a bigger motherboard to accommodate the 6 or 8 dimm sockets.

The additional traces, longer traces, more layers on the motherboard, and related makes the signalling harder, likely needs ECC or even registered ECC.

We need a more expensive CPU, more expensive motherboard, more power, more cooling, and a larger system. Congratulations you've reinvented threadripper (4 channel), siena (6 channel), Threadripper pro (8 channel), or epyc (12 channel). All larger, more expensive more than 2x the power, and is likely to be in a $5-$15k workstation/server not a $2k framework desktop the size of a liter of milk or so.


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zozbot234last Sunday at 10:56 AM

> We need a more expensive CPU, more expensive motherboard, more power, more cooling, and a larger system. Congratulations you've reinvented threadripper (4 channel), siena (6 channel), Threadripper pro (8 channel), or epyc (12 channel).

This is the real story not the conspiracy-tinged market segmentation one. Which is silly because at levels where high-end consumer/enthusiast Ryzen (say, 9950 X3D) and lowest-end Threadripper/EPYC (most likely a previous-gen chip) just happen to truly overlap in performance, the former will generally cost you more!

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