two nearly three orders of magnitude increase in CPU horsepower
over the same timeframe. Seymour
Cray, from his amazing in-depth knowledge, predicted that the mismatch
-would become a serious limitation, over two decades ago. Some systems
+would become a serious limitation, over two decades ago.
+
+The latency gap between that bitcell speed and the CPU speed can do nothing to help Random Access (unpredictable reads/writes). Cacheing helps only so
+much, but not with some types of workloads (FFTs are one of the worst)
+even though
+they are fully deterministic.
+Some systems
at the time of writing are now approaching a *Gigabyte* of L4 Cache,
by way of compensation, and as we know from experience even that will
be considered inadequate in future.