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    20 days ago

    Eventually most system RAM will have to be packaged anyway. Physics dictates that one pays a penalty going over pins and mobo traces, and it gets more severe with every advancement.

    It’s possible that external RAM will eventually evolve into a “2nd tier” of system memory, for background processes, spillover, inactive programs/data, things like that.

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        110 days ago

        Keep in mind that it would be pretty slow, as it doesn’t make sense to burn power and die area on a wide secondary bus.