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I heard the DRAM shortage has started affecting PC sales, and I would think that it would be hurting Intel's bottom line.

I remember hearing Intel was looking for customers for its fabs, so I suppose they have some capacity sitting idle.

Why not use some of that capacity to make DRAM themselves? If they can make CPUs running at multi-gigahertz and contains DRAM controllers, surely DDR5 memory is not out of their reach?

Intel can use up their excess capacities, making currently high-priced DRAM for profit, gain goodwill for rescuing the PC market, which in turn will sell more Intel CPUs as well. Sounds like a win to me. What do you think?

Edit: I know nothing about semiconductor manufacturing so feel free to tell me how Intel's process is not suitable for making DRAM, or any other reason why it would not be smart for them to do that.

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[–] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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