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Not just that memory shrinks slower, it has practically completely stalled. On chip cache seems stuck at 7nm and DRAM is stuck at 10nm. As transistors shrink, they hold less charge, creating weaker signals that are harder to read and prone to interference. Smaller nodes aren't a huge issue on CPU/GPU work load because they don't have to hold a static state.

I'm not saying we are at peak memory but future gains are going to come increasingly slower.

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You surely meant capacitors, not transistors



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