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by white-flame 3302 days ago
Right, it becomes less about individual chips' TSVs vs logic in DRAM, and more about the scalability of the architecture. In the marketplace right now, the trend for these TSV/interposer/multi-die sorts of devices is in "fat node" designs, instead of more on-board distributed designs.

Logic on DRAM should be simpler & cheaper, which would in the long tail lend itself to more horizontal scaling (and horizontal scaling is currently required to get large memory footprints economically). More elaborate & expensive designs would end up more in fat node designs. There's really no technical difference when looking at many-chip architectures as the chip package is a black box at that level, but it's more an economic one.