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Anyone more in the know - how much ram could one of these new chips handle - the 16GB limit is something that has to go.

wompfox 9y ago
64GB (1), I don't think there has been a 16gb limit for several generations 1: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/core/i9-processors/i9-8950hk.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/...
dorfsmay 9y ago
Isn't the 16 GiB a self-imposed limit by the laptops manufacturers rather than the processors?
- rsynnott 9y ago
  Bit of both. Current Intel chips (including these ones) don't support LPDDR4. This is largely because Intel is at this point years behind on their roadmap; phone chips have supported LPDDR4 for a while. They support LPDDR3 and plain (non-low-power) DDR4. So if you want to go over 16GB, you have to use plain DDR4, and power usage, especially suspended power usage, suffers. Next-gen Intel chips will support LPDDR4, making the whole thing a bit of a non-issue.
  - Jesus_Jones 9y ago
    If the next gen was close, it would not be an issue. But because it's way behind and one commenter up above stated its 18 months out. So it's an issue. My dev team is finally abandoning mac books for lenovo laptops with 32 gig.
    - pacificmint 9y ago
      If you mean mbell's comment, they said it's 18 months late, not 18 months out. How many months it's out from this point is presumably something only Intel knows. Or maybe not even Intel.
      - Jesus_Jones 9y ago
        ah, thanks for the correction. so when is it expected, if not in 18 months? I've been waiting for > 16 gig for literally 2+ yaers.
        dashesyan 9y ago
        Hopefully soon. I've been waiting for > 16GB for almost 7 years now. :/ (I have a 2011 MBP with 16GB RAM)
        Jesus_Jones 9y ago
        It'll be this decade or next, never you worry.
grkvlt 9y ago
You can buy an HP zbook x2 with i7-8650U and 32Gb today, if you want? And there's even a mobile Xeon laptop from HP that supports 64 Gb...

wompfox 9y ago

64GB (1), I don't think there has been a 16gb limit for several generations 1: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/core/i9-processors/i9-8950hk.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/...

dorfsmay 9y ago

Isn't the 16 GiB a self-imposed limit by the laptops manufacturers rather than the processors?

rsynnott 9y ago
Bit of both. Current Intel chips (including these ones) don't support LPDDR4. This is largely because Intel is at this point years behind on their roadmap; phone chips have supported LPDDR4 for a while. They support LPDDR3 and plain (non-low-power) DDR4. So if you want to go over 16GB, you have to use plain DDR4, and power usage, especially suspended power usage, suffers. Next-gen Intel chips will support LPDDR4, making the whole thing a bit of a non-issue.
- Jesus_Jones 9y ago
  If the next gen was close, it would not be an issue. But because it's way behind and one commenter up above stated its 18 months out. So it's an issue. My dev team is finally abandoning mac books for lenovo laptops with 32 gig.
  - pacificmint 9y ago
    If you mean mbell's comment, they said it's 18 months late, not 18 months out. How many months it's out from this point is presumably something only Intel knows. Or maybe not even Intel.
    - Jesus_Jones 9y ago
      ah, thanks for the correction. so when is it expected, if not in 18 months? I've been waiting for > 16 gig for literally 2+ yaers.
      - dashesyan 9y ago
        Hopefully soon. I've been waiting for > 16GB for almost 7 years now. :/ (I have a 2011 MBP with 16GB RAM)
        Jesus_Jones 9y ago
        It'll be this decade or next, never you worry.

grkvlt 9y ago

You can buy an HP zbook x2 with i7-8650U and 32Gb today, if you want? And there's even a mobile Xeon laptop from HP that supports 64 Gb...