Intel has said that it is working on a technology called Through Silicon Vias (TSV), which can integrate DRAM with the processor. So if the technology see the light of the day, then there will not be any need to buy memory cards. At it's developement forum in San Francisco, the company showed an 80-core processor, which is connected directly to a 256MB memory chip through (TSV). The computer makers, when building a system, would get their memory when they bought their processors from Intel.

"The memory wedded to the processor cores could constitute the entire memory needed for a computer", Intel CTO Justin Rattner said. Integrating memory to the processor will have huge performance benefits. Currently, memory and the processor in Intel-based computers exchange data through a memory controller, which moves at a far slower rate than the processor. It's one of the big bottlenecks in computer performance. TSV, which displaces the memory controller, would shuttle data far quicker.
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