Just say 1/4th, -3 doesn't make any sense here even though that's what your statement amounts to.

Had a similar problem in a science(!) magazine a few days ago. It said that the budget on something had been reduced by 100%. So I went to the graph and discovered it had actually gone down by half, indicating that the person who'd done the numbers wasn't as smart as they thought they were. Didn't check the other numbers, but simply assumed that the percentage numbers were crap(rubbish for those of you who speak English east of the Atlantic).

Mathematics is the ONLY universal language, let's try to be consistent, mmkay?

Heres bit more with diagrams Nathan Brockwood emailed:

http://www.semiconductor.net/article/354546-IBM_Readies_32_nm_eDRAM_With_Low_Latency.php

Yes, there is also going to be 22 nm soi of tech. Although NOT available to Public.

This allows 45 nm 4 core cpu to have 4X more cache in its inards. Power 7 will be 32 Mb of Cache.

Drashek M.D.

Wasn't AMD and IBM working on Z-RAM using SOI? Last I heard they were waiting for a smaller process to manufacture it (32nm or so).

Does it make sense then for AMD to put these into their CPUs and replace the SRAM?

Dynamic memory is Vast improvement, in few articles earlier, 22 nm is mentioned & Intel is planning to wow world with few 22nm sampling in new 32 nm world, Coming on d' morrow. yet dynamic can outperform 18 nm.

it is so much of improvement, IBM is planning to incorporate 32 nm dynamic memory into ALL its present equipment in BIg change over.

With useages going far beyond todays mortal 'puter, it has added bonus of doing things never done before.

In past computer was limited to dying after brief spurt, which 'puter did often, thus NO off switch, it'd die forever. Now computers are far moore advanced with atx tech, So it makes sense cpu & main start working properly together, too.

DRASHEK

Is that one quarter the power? If so, say so "four times less" is nonsense.

MB buffer, for ram and HD!