Comments on: More memory coming to future IBM chips

Big Blue comes up with a way to cram more memory directly onto its processors, boosting performance starting in 2008.

[kruzilla2001]

So, how does this impact the average pc user and console gamer?

Can someone tell me what this means for me in layman's terms? I'm both a pc and console gamer? Another article I read on this said this would have a big impact on these things. How?

[fmcgowan]

Current versions of the big 3 game consoles

use Power processors of one sort or another. Assuming IBM will continue suppling them (not a given but not unlikely, either), this will filter to game consoles as they use chips of made in IBM's 45nm fabrication plants.

It is also quite likely that AMD among others (Intel ?) will license this technology for their own processors, thereby extending the effect to the PC/Mac markets...

[frkk]

Memory in IBM chips

Good news!
But, can someone tel me wy not put Flash/Solid State memory, in a processor, for a faster boot machine?

[adot44]

If you mean...

If you mean as a hard disk, the answer is price.