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Wccftech reports on AMD's assessment of 3D DRAM as a promising alternative to HBM for AI compute, citing 17x better energy efficiency from hybrid bonding. The article also notes thermal hurdles that prevent commercialization, alongside pressure on HBM's wafer usage and growing interest in SRAM-only decode, PIM, and CXL pooling.
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