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Ep. 030 - Long Live the Short King: Why 4-HI HBM Wins (Memory) | Myron Xie, Jordan Nanos

This episode argues that 4-high HBM is becoming the preferred configuration for many accelerators because it preserves bandwidth while reducing scarce memory capacity. The hosts tie Nvidia’s Rubin Ultra reset from a 1TB concept to 192GB at launch primarily to DRAM/HBM supply constraints, not a performance shortfall.