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They had aspirations to make DRAM less useful/needed for some cases.
It more or less failed for a variety of reasons.
The concept was called Far Memory as a step between DRAM and SSDs. Lots of stories I can't really share from back in the day
This article talks a bit about far memory:
https://dzone.com/articles/far-memory-unleashed-what-is-far-memory