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Carmack and Musk brainstorm replacing DRAM with fiber loops

development2026-02-08

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Nvidia is exploring servers with co-packaged optics to bypass electrical bottlenecks while John Carmack and Elon Musk discussed replacing DRAM entirely with fiber optic loops or the vacuum of space.

Reporting date: 2026-02-08 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to February 8, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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NVIDIA

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Memory prices rise up to 90% in a quarter

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Carmack and Musk brainstorm replacing DRAM with fiber loops
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-02-08
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-02-08-replace-dram-with-light
Claim: Nvidia is exploring servers with co-packaged optics to bypass electrical bottlenecks while John Carmack and Elon Musk discussed replacing DRAM entirely with fiber optic loops or the vacuum of space.
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- Welcome to February 8, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-february-8-2026
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