AMD Licenses Z-RAM Technology

ZuperDee writes "It appears AMD has licensed Z-RAM technology from Innovative Silicon for possible use in future processors. According to the article, this could lead to caches about 5 times denser than the SRAM that is normally used right now. C|Net says they will probably make the announcement on Monday."

Comments

The message is clear:

[THE MESSAGE IS CLEAR]

We have run out of ram letters!

Re:The message is clear:

[Anonymous Coward]

We have run out of ram letters!

Don't worry - they've thought of such an eventuality - when all the letters are used up they simply move on to the list of reserved names.

If another RAM is invented this year, it will be Alberto-RAM, then Beryl-RAM, etc etc.

Full list here

Re:The message is clear:

[TubeSteak]

I call dibs on Dodge-RAM

Re:The message is clear:

[Mr Z]

Oh Chrysler, that was a bad pun.

Calm down.

[hummassa]

We still got all the letters in Unicode...

Re:factorial benchmark

[Anonymous Crowhead]

Your benchmark is pointless. I just wrote a quick program to calculate 1,000,000 factorial (ten times your number). I ran it on an AMD 800 thunderbird. It took 11 seconds. Blam - my 5 year old AMD is nearly 100 times faster than your modern P4 3.2GHz.

Re:factorial benchmark

[mesterha]

Your benchmark is pointless. I just wrote a quick program to calculate 1,000,000 factorial (ten times your number). I ran it on an AMD 800 thunderbird. It took 11 seconds. Blam - my 5 year old AMD is nearly 100 times faster than your modern P4 3.2GHz.

My program is even faster. It just returns Inf. It's almost infinitely faster.

Re:factorial benchmark

[putaro]

My iBook finished in about 1/2 second. The answer left a bit to be desired, though: "Infinity"

Re:Read much, do you?

[Lord Maud'Dib]

Well, how long does it take to run this test on a 486DX66? Anyone willing to spend a year benchmarking?

Oblig. Futurama, of course

[Dachannien]

Organ Dealer: Z is just as good. In fact, is better. Is two more than X.