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Computer RAM gets biggest upgrade in 25 years but it may be too little, too late — LPCAMM2 won't stop Apple, Intel and AMD from integrating memory directly on the CPU (www.techradar.com)
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Computer RAM gets biggest upgrade in 25 years but it may be too little, too late — LPCAMM2 won't stop Apple, Intel and AMD from integrating memory directly on the CPU::LPCAMM2 is a revolution in RAM, but it faces an uphill struggle

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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why would you think soldering would increase performance vs socketed at all much less provide "much higher performance"

If soldered was the only option ans 6 skud was enough for everyone everyone would have to buy very expensive hardware to increase one spec instead of smart people getting to mix match and upgrade.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    The socket has big reductions in ram and pcie signal integrity. If you don't plan to change the CPU and motherboard separately soldering it would save money and the store could do it for you when you order both together.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Because it’s true. Soldering the memory right next to the CPU allows us to run the memory at a lower voltage and faster clock rate, while getting lower latency too. The LPDDR4/5X are designed based around these improvements. GPUs have been doing this forever too for the same reasons. It’s a huge upgrade in every way except upgradability, which is effectively eliminated.

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