DRAM Crunch: Lessons for System Design

ggiuliomagnifico 1 day ago 3 commentsRead Article on eetimes.com

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_alphageek•about 2 hours ago

The weak link in the argument is the "1-2 GB DRAM stays stable" claim. That tier is stable because demand sits elsewhere. If AI workloads actually migrate down-capacity at scale (which is what the piece advocates), pricing pressure follows them.

babblingfish•about 3 hours ago

This is what keeps Amodei and Altman up at night. Their whole moat is data centers. But what if we didn't need the data centers?

wmf•about 2 hours ago

This article is an ad for Hailo and frontier AI will never run on the edge so A & A have nothing to worry about.

(I define frontier AI as that which doesn't run on the edge... gotcha.)