IDF: Intel Demonstrates 16 GB DDR3 MetaRAM

[xyster]

This year at IDF, Intel will demonstrate new high-capacity DDR3 memory featuring MetaRAM technologies

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[JonathanDeane]

Wow thats allot of RAM.... (I have to wonder about increased latency though) Well maybe we will see systems with 16GB's of RAM now!!! This will finaly push the issue of 64 bits VS 32 bits to its final outcome...

 

[jaragon13]

...And I just wanted 8 gigs...

Only thing I see this being useful for in a while,is for servers...but they could just get DDR2,with like 32 slots instead of the supposed higher with the DDR3 and a more expensive server motherboard.

 

[xyster]

Imagine an X58 motherboard, having 6 slots for DDR3, and a new Quad core to boot. That would offer nearly 100GB of RAM! I'd be content with 6GB (3x2gb), but wow..

 

[jaragon13]

[citation][nom]xyster[/nom]Imagine an X58 motherboard, having 6 slots for DDR3, and a new Quad core to boot. That would offer nearly 100GB of RAM! I'd be content with 6GB (3x2gb), but wow.. [/citation]
Now you have a faster SSD!...Except it's gonna cycle...whenever...the power goes off..I could see complete "precaching" of many important things in the memory,hell,I could get a whole game and windows to be entirely loaded up for fast access,instead of needing the faster hard-drives.

 

[eklipz330]

can you just preload all your apps to this massive amounts of ram for INSANE booting times for apps and OS and games?!

 

[jaragon13]

[citation][nom]eklipz330[/nom]can you just preload all your apps to this massive amounts of ram for INSANE booting times for apps and OS and games?![/citation]
What? It would be nice,I think,as I wouldn't ever really turn it off.Like a driver function,to load up all of the program and related files,but I'm thinking the program would have to accept it,and not just shadow the files on it's own section of the RAM.

 

[MafiaAce]

Yeah, if someone made a software based RAM drive that would be amazing... loading whole games into the ram.. eliminating load times etc. Even if it took a while to "preload" all the data at first, it would be worth it.

 

[V3NOM]

agreed.

 

[Zorg]

That would make hardware RAM drives large/cheap enough to be a serious option. Then the data would be there all the time and boot would be a few seconds.

 

[Deki_R]

very nice...

 

[jarnail24]

In my laptop get rid of my ram and my hd and load everthing on to this. imagine loading vista in about 2 seconds. Just gotta figure out the ccling problem when it is turned off.

 

[jarnail24]

I meant cycling problem in my comment above.

 

[V3NOM]

jamali wat about a backing up program that quickly backs everything on the ram to the hard drive? you can do it with hibernate instead of turn off in windows