CAMM memory preview: The Dell SODIMM revolution

[Simon Shaw]

Unless it's standardised this will die.
It strikes cynical me as a measure for them to deny RAM upgrade capability whilst allowing multiple mainboards to be used.

[zap]

If I see this out in production, I'm absolutely picking a product with sodimms over this.  While I appreciate the removable LGA aspect of the design, every other major feature is a downgrade from the current standard.  The arguments about traces and form factor issues are moot as they're easily solved on any boards that have been properly designed.  If anything, we should be seeing more inline edge connectors for sodimms instead of mounting them on top of the board. 

[Jonatas]

Everywhere in this article says this memory module has 128 GB, but it's clearly visible written on the memory module itself, it's in fact a 32 GB module. Your own review of the Dell Precision 7670 says this same module is 32 GB. Please fix this article.

[Sisko214]

if will be a Dell technology only, gonna be a failure, as it has been the old rambus on their old Precision workstations.
Maybe can be more powerful and faster than the currents ddr, but if they will not be adopted by other manufactured will be relegated only to a small niche, and will ended up to be abandoned.

[Rupert]

This seems more like a solution in search of a problem.  This is going to add a lot of costs.  Let's break it down:

1. New, bigger, more complex connector: adds cost and weight.
2. Bigger carrier board for memory modules: adds cost and weight.
3. Needs screws where before they used latches: Some material cost added and some weight, but worse: a bunch of assembly cost added.
4. Overall heavier than SO-DIMMS, so that weight increase will flow thru the supply chain, incrementally raising prices.
5. New connectors will have higher defect rates and will throw away decades of high-scale manufacturing cost reduction that was put into SO-DIMM.

If there is any possible way to add more lanes or better lanes to a SO-DIMM or similar connector format, especially if it is backward compatible, that would be a huge win over this big, expensive thing.

I don't buy the "thinner" argument.  If you want thin, solder the chips on.  Everyone who wants thin pretty much accepts that they won't get memory upgrades.

[NikoB]

In fact, vile capitalist b******s just realized that memory is very cheap and these freaks can't do anything about it, as well as an independent memory upgrade by buyers many times cheaper than greedy and greedy manufacturers are trying to sell.

And now, under the guise of "innovation" they can sell new s*** at exorbitant prices. And what's even worse for consumers is that they lose the ability to move old memory to new systems.

Everything is obvious - vile capitalism in the current imperialistic-consumer model has become fetters and chains on the feet of the progressive part of humanity. And every time it gets worse and worse...

Useful properties of globalization are deliberately destroyed (positive communications and fast unions for people and thoughts), and vile manifestations are cultivated - common concentration camp
"standards" and tracking people globally.

[SpaceAge]

Occupy less foot print?  How come it looks way bigger than SO-DIMM? The reason M.2 is more popular than 2.5 inch is because of its much smaller foot print.  I will expect SO-DIMM to evolve instead using this giant piece of CAMM.

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