Deepseek may have found a way to solve the RAM crisis by eliminating the need for expensive HBM for AI inference and training — yes, the very reason why DRAM prices went up by 5X in 10 weeks

A person's hand using DeepSeek on their mobile phone.

• DeepSeek’s Engram separates static memory from computation, increasing efficiency in large AI models
• The method reduces high-speed memory needs by enabling DeepSeek models to use lookups
• Engram supports asynchronous prefetching across multiple GPUs with minimal performance overhead

DeepSeek, in collaboration with Peking University, introduced a new training method called Engram, designed to decouple memory storage from computational processes.