IBM claims a major breakthrough in computer architecture, by integrating memory and processing on one chip. Says it makes AI 25 times faster.
IBM claims a major breakthrough in computer architecture, by integrating memory and processing on one chip. Says it makes AI 25 times faster.
IBM’s NorthPole processor sidesteps need to access external memory, boosting computing power and saving energy.
So...cache?
multibillion dollar company discovers the memory hierarchy
could the next big leap be integrating instructions and data in the same memory store?
The article does not say if they'd innovated enough to produce capacitor-based DRAM with the CPU on the same die. I guess it would come in 1GB variant if they managed that.
Isn't this a Soc?
Shhhh, we need to pretend like it's something new for our investors!
Now we will be able to get completely false, made up answers even faster!
While this will speed up loads of things, it also feels like this will end up being another way to remove upgradability from devices. Want more ram in your desktop buy a new cpu.
The article says the whole CPU has like 200MB of memory, so it's not really replacing the RAM already in PCs. Plus this seems focused on AI applications, not general computing.
So... they'll probably add some slower, larger-capacity memory chips on the side, and then they'll need to copy data back and forth between the slow off-chip memory and the fast on-chip memory... I'm pretty sure they've just invented cache
I mean the physical distance between the RAM and CPU will eventually be the limiting factor right? It's inevitable for more reasons than profit
Yeah, that's absolutely true, doesn't mean I have to like it. 😭😭
So... They re-invented the Harvard architecture and added more cores?
So, the same thing that’s already in my MacBook?
Unless your macbook CPU has a 200 mb cache, then no
M2 Ultra performance cores have a 64 mb L2 and a 96 mb L3
Your mac has 256 compute cores, each core with access to its own memory?