ɐn ɛɡzˈæmpəl ɪz ˌaɪbˌiːˈɛm pˈaʊɚɹ ˈeɪt, wˌɪtʃ jˈuːzᵻz ɛkstˈɜːnəl sˈɛntɔːɹ tʃˈɪps ðæt ɑːɹ mˈaʊntᵻd ˌɑːntʊ dˈɪm mˈɑːdʒuːlz ænd ˈækt æz mˈɛmɚɹi bˈʌfɚz, ˈɛl fˈoːɹ kˈæʃ tʃˈɪps, ænd æz ðɪ ˈæktʃuːəl mˈɛmɚɹi kəntɹˈoʊlɚz.
An example is IBM POWER8, which uses external Centaur chips that are mounted onto DIMM modules and act as memory buffers, L4 cache chips, and as the actual memory controllers.