Ben Thompson
speaker
42,103 appearances
120 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Aug
Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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RAM is
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Super fast relative to your hard drive, astronomically slow compared to cash, right?
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And you go past RAM, you go to your SSD.
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Remember when we got our first SSDs?
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Unbelievably fast compared to spinning disks, but SSDs way slower than RAM.
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Uh, and then and then you can go out to spinning discs.
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You can go out like you can go out to tape machines, like there's still storage using magnetic tape.
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Uh
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Huge capacity, very, very slow.
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In general, there's this capacity speed sort of trade off with memory.
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And so a part of designing a computer is design the memory hierarchy.
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Like w figuring out in general what stuff should be super close to the processor and thus super fast, but knowing you have a limited amount of space there and what stuff gets bumped down.
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Yeah.
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And this is coming.
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literal like ones and zeros, like the actual like bits that go into calculating this sort of thing, which ultimately is everything.
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Everything is is is a one and zero at the end of the day.
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And so this is already happening.
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For
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inference and it's gonna happen even more.
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So right now, mostly everything's in HBM of a bunch of GPUs tied together.
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