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It's turtles all the way down, and I think this is needlessly splitting hairs.

L1->L2->L3->(L4->)DRAM->Storage

3D XPoint is being considered as the DIMM-module, byte-addressed "memory" before storage. Saying that it "augments" DRAM is almost meaningless because we already have multiple levels of DRAM.



If I am not mistaken, we have only one level of DRAM. Caches are SRAM. (Also, DRAM on DIMM is not byte-addressable)


The PS2, Xbox 360, Wii, and some intel chips with iris provide on-die DRAM caches.




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