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Why can't memory clock speeds be as fast as the CPU speed?

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Mar 15, 20262630 views
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I was reading that in old i386 based systems, the ram bus used to be the same speed as the CPU but when CPU frequencies increased, it became too hard to make RAM the same speed. Why can't we have 2GHz RAM? Is there some component that can't scale?

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At one time it was easy to make a bus that would handle the really low speeds CPUs and memory ran at. Since CPUs occupy a much smaller space, it was easier to make them run at the higher frequencies and run the memory and its bus at a lower attainab…

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