c|net is reporting on one of the features of the IBM 80-core processor that seems to have been over shadowed by the actual processor news. The feature; or tech, is call Through Silicon Vias, or TSV; which is a fancy term of having memory wedded to the processor cores. IBM is stating that this would effectively do away with the need for separate memory.

The memory wedded to the processor cores could constitute the entire memory needed for a computer, Intel CTO Justin Rattner told News.com in an interview during the Intel Developer Forum. TSV could be used in a variety of chips, not just the 80-core monster. As a result, computer makers, when building a system, would get their memory when they bought their processors from Intel. They would not have to obtain memory chips separately from other companies like they do now.
“You could buy it as a block,” he said.

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