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jsheardlast Monday at 7:54 PM1 replyview on HN

SRAM scaling also hit a wall a while ago, so you can't really count on new processes allowing for significantly higher density in the future. That's more of a longer-term issue with the SRAM gambit that'll come into play after the DRAM shortage is over though - logic and DRAM will keep improving while SRAM probably stays more or less where it is now.


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zozbot234last Monday at 8:06 PM

You can still scale SRAM by stacking it in 3D layers, similar to the common approach now used with NAND flash. I think HBM DRAM is also directly stacked on-die to begin with, apparently that's the best approach to scaling memory bandwidth too.

It'll be interesting to see if we get any kind of non-NAND persistent memory in the near future, that might beat some performance metrics of both DRAM and NAND flash.

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