Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Chris M. Thomasson" Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture designer? Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:54:36 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <2935676af968e40e7cad204d40cafdcf@www.novabbs.org> <21028ed32d20f0eea9a754fafdb64e45@www.novabbs.org> <20240918190027.00003e4e@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 23:54:37 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="42c0a89c6a186330b80e4dfc17153aea"; logging-data="1330210"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/iUWYM3GzrmB8+WTQgI3Z3aoqzfGNHuzY=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:Wp4LAkY5imPhxe0JqjgmOdeOrzo= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2103 On 9/20/2024 2:32 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:21:52 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>> The basic issue is: >>> * CPU+motherboard RAM -- usually upgradeable >>> * Addon coprocessor RAM -- usually not upgradeable >> >> Maybe the RAM of the "addon coprocessor" is not upgradeable, but the >> addon board itself can be replaced with another one (one with more RAM). > > Yes, but that’s a lot more expensive. I had this crazy idea of putting cpus right on the ram. So, if you add more memory to your system you automatically get more cpu's... Think NUMA for a moment... ;^)