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When will we have L1, L2, and L3 cache storage devices?

Your thoughts on if this will ever happen? (Please don't reply to this thread with "I don't know")

 

 

I hear that L1 is the most expensive

 

(Offtopic because it deals with storage AND cpu. So i did not know where to put it) (It also asks peoples opinions on the matter)

 

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Is this even possible?

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what do you mean "storage devices" ?

L cache is stored directly on the CPU

there are no devices

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what do you mean "storage devices" ?

L cache is stored directly on the CPU

there are no devices

I am saying that will we ever have storage as fast as L cache

i heard somewhere it is fast as blazes

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Storage devices will never be as fast as cache simply because cache is part of the CPU meaning it doesn't have to access another device through a certain protocol.

 

Right now, in terms of storage, NVMe is as fast as things will get for at least a few years.

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Cache is SRAM. It's only faster than other storage devices because it's directly attached to the CPU, not because the memory itself is super fast compared to everything else.

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Cache is SRAM. It's only faster than other storage devices because it's directly attached to the CPU, not because the memory itself is super fast compared to everything else.

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I am saying that will we ever have storage as fast as L cache

i heard somewhere it is fast as blazes

the only reason why its so fast is because it is directly at the CPU

its just flash memory like any other kind of digital storage

 

so until some new kind of storage system comes along with an ultra fast interface, no, there will not be external storage that fast

what is more likely to happen is CPU cache increase until its as big as normal storage

right now its still in the tens of MBs, but in the future hopefully we will have GB of it

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