Equation 1 · Part 1 · Comparing the Main Approaches to AI Memory Systems and the Bandwidth Wall
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Bandwidth in particular has a hidden physical driver that explains why these four approaches look so different from one another: pin count. A memory bus’s raw bandwidth is well approximated by . with W the bus width in bits and the effective transfer rate per pin. For a conventional DIMM interface, W is set by the number of package pins a processor can spare and a printed-circuit board can route, and that number has a hard physical ceiling — DDR5 alone specifies 288 pins per channel, and adding channels for more bandwidth becomes markedly more expensive under a CPU package’s pin budget [ 6 ] . Once W is capped by the board, the only lever left is…
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