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by jbreitbart 238 days ago
Since it is attached to the memory controller, one could argue that it is truly the final level of the cache hierarchy and the term infinity is not only a marketing term.
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But then you could add another level of slower (but still faster than RAM) and larger cache. So it is after all the CPU caches, but the first of all the memory caches. A more mathematically correct name would be L_omega.