I think CAMM has a lot going for it. - It's royalty free - It can use LPDDR5, at least, according to what I read - It doesn't require 1.35V to work, and results in better thermals and battery life - It doesn't require making several different SKUs for one model, and completely handicapping the 8GB configuration.
The only issue it had was Dell not announcing the spec until well after everyone had already designed and made DDR5 SODIMM laptops.
Dells biggest issue is presenting it as a Dell memory module, and not an open standard. Completely poisoned the well on CAMM adoption. Optics are important.
They proposed it to JEDEC, for standardization. I think it'll probably happen, depending on whether it can scale LPDDR5 speeds any higher than regular SO-DIMMs.
It has one significant downside, which is that any memory upgrades need to be a wholesale replacement. Not a huge deal, since laptops generally have a max of 2 DIMM slots, anyhow.
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meacupla - Friday, August 11, 2023 - link
I would love to see these in a DDR5 CAMM module.Seeing as regular DDR5 SODIMM kinda sucks and requires 1.35V to hit 6400MT/s
nandnandnand - Saturday, August 12, 2023 - link
Are we going to see much adoption of DDR5 CAMM, or will the real action be saved for DDR6 CAMM since SODIMM will not be feasible then?meacupla - Saturday, August 12, 2023 - link
I think CAMM has a lot going for it.- It's royalty free
- It can use LPDDR5, at least, according to what I read
- It doesn't require 1.35V to work, and results in better thermals and battery life
- It doesn't require making several different SKUs for one model, and completely handicapping the 8GB configuration.
The only issue it had was Dell not announcing the spec until well after everyone had already designed and made DDR5 SODIMM laptops.
TheinsanegamerN - Monday, August 14, 2023 - link
Dells biggest issue is presenting it as a Dell memory module, and not an open standard. Completely poisoned the well on CAMM adoption. Optics are important.mode_13h - Monday, August 14, 2023 - link
They proposed it to JEDEC, for standardization. I think it'll probably happen, depending on whether it can scale LPDDR5 speeds any higher than regular SO-DIMMs.mode_13h - Monday, August 14, 2023 - link
It has one significant downside, which is that any memory upgrades need to be a wholesale replacement. Not a huge deal, since laptops generally have a max of 2 DIMM slots, anyhow.nandnandnand - Monday, August 14, 2023 - link
I'll take anything over the complete death of user-upgradeable memory.meacupla - Tuesday, August 15, 2023 - link
Well the counterpoint to that is, you couldn't upgrade LPDDR before CAMM. All LPDDR4 and its variants are soldered down.PeachNCream - Monday, August 14, 2023 - link
"...started mass production of 24 GB LPDDR5X memory stacks..."Okay boomer.