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artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

they tried to make it with swappable RAM and it turned out to be impossible from a physics perspective

Not true. They could make it but with reduced memory bandwidth. They chose not to do it anyway.

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papertowels@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Some more context:

So we did actually ask AMD about this the first time they told us about Strix Halo. It was literally our first question: ‘How do we get modular memory? We are Framework after all.’ And they didn’t say no actually, they did assign one of their technical architects to really really go deep on this—they ran simulations, they ran studies, and they just determined it’s not possible with Strix Halo to do LPCAMM. The signal integrity doesn’t work out because of how that memory’s fanning out over the 256-bit bus.

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