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by labawi 2078 days ago
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> Power10 chip .. using the DDR4 buffer chip from MicroChip and only adding a mere 10 nanoseconds to memory latency.

At 5GHz that would be 50 cycles or 1m round-trip. The delay is in processing - bridging logical and technical protocols, resynchronization, fanout, probably even a cache layer.