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More memory responding faster in a smaller footprint: that's what chip vendors are hoping to achieve with the announcement of the HMC 1.0 specification. The standard, available here, sets down the specs for memory chip stacking using through-silicon vias (TSVs). In other words: individual memory dies, stacked vertically on top …

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  1. John Smith 19 Gold badge
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    Had to be coming sooner or later.

    At present the thinnest "wire" in a chip is about 140 atoms across. Sometime within the next 10-20 years that wire will become 1 atom across, at which point all efforts to increase density by "shrinking the layout" end.

    Current wafers are about 30-50x thicker than the actual active layer of the chip so there is still a lot of room to pack more data.

    Handling the heat, data connections and alignment are other matters.

  2. Tomas K.

    This is OK but not a big deal

    If for some reason you need increased RAM density this might be fine but otherwise it's a solution for a problem that doesn't really exist for most consumers.

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