They aren't doing this. The main thing to blame is Intel not officially supporting anything greater than 4Gbit with DDR3 (they want to push DDR4 instead). In re

They aren't doing this. The main thing to blame is Intel not officially supporting anything greater than 4Gbit with DDR3 (they want to push DDR4 instead). In reality 8Gbit DDR3 does work with Broadwell and Skylake, and Purism is already doing it.