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Comment by selectodude

11 hours ago

HBM is just DRAM stacked directly next to the die. The expensive part is gluing it on there. The chips themselves are pretty much the same.

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akelly  10 hours ago

HBM uses about twice as much DRAM silicon per GB due to all the space for interconnect

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