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Intel to release new CPUs on old socket in early 2027 says Gigabyte - memory crisis making DDR4 desirable again (www.pcgamer.com)
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So you mean to tell me they had the technology the whole time to make upgraded modular chips and sell them for pre-existing computer architecture but chose not to because they knew people would pay for the shiny new toys.

There's a chip crisis and SUDDENLY!!!!!! We're all able to use new technologies on old computer architectures.......

Call it supply and demand but I think that's fucked up nm which way you look at it.

I read that and then immediately thought to myself, so they just chose not to release upgrades for old architectures and speed released a shit load of new hardware they knew people would pay OTA for.

This whole time they could've actually been making old computers better than they are and make it so the consumer didn't have to spend a fuck load on upgrades but waited till a chip shortage to do it.....

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[-] ZeroPoke@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago

Memory controllers used to be on the motherboards. So your motherboard would determine the type of RAM you used.

As you may know the something called the chipset these days they used to be called south bridges and we had a north bridge. And the North bridge had things like Memory Controller and other IO stuff. South Bridge hasn't changed much in terms of what it does. More IO.

It's basically like cache tiers. The closer you are to the CPU the faster you can be.

[-] AntonioAndolini@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I thought North and south bridges still existed. That architecture stopped in 2008... Wtf

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