Quote Originally Posted by AJF
I guess it makes sense, but they'll probably increase it again once K8L drops, maybe a shift to the use of ZRAM. Short-term, they're aiming for a shift to 65nm and increased clock speeds, or so it seems.

ZRAM is a technology hyped created by those without any technical backgrounds (i.e. overclockers, AMD fan, etc).

If you actually read the technical white papers and publications, ZRAM, although consumes little real estate, is way too slow to be used as L1 or L2 cache. It's feasible to use it as L3 cache, but the actual die savings is minimal if you look at the recently published K8L spec.

BTW, if you look at the most recent published die picture of K8L, AMD did not replace any cache with ZRAM yet.