Just a reminder that AMD was building "heterogenous uniform memory access" chips back in 2013[1], with very much the same intent. Different product segments, but same ideas.<p>Different but similar topic, just last week, AMD announced "smart access memory", which is not unified/uniform memory, but is their own system for expanding the video card RAM aperture allocation, something invented back in AGP video card days (1997-2004) as a segment of system ram dedicated to transfer space to/from the video card.<p>[1] <a href="https://hothardware.com/news/amd-announces-huma-heterogeneous-uniform-memory-access-for-future-apus" rel="nofollow">https://hothardware.com/news/amd-announces-huma-heterogeneou...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.anandtech.com/show/16202/amd-reveals-the-radeon-rx-6000-series-rdna2-starts-at-the-highend-coming-november-18th/2" rel="nofollow">https://www.anandtech.com/show/16202/amd-reveals-the-radeon-...</a>