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> Compression Are the overheads of compression worth it for CAMM2?
by DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
> Compression
Are the overheads of compression worth it for CAMM2?
- Tuna-Fish 2y agoDifferent kind of compression than you are probably thinking about. It's a compression-attached connector, like a CPU socket, instead of an edge connector like DIMM. CAMM was made necessary because SO-DIMM could no longer support the kind of signaling that next-gen memory needs. CAMM allows both for much cleaner signal paths, and for more signals. It's coming to desktops too because there is no sensible reason to have a separate desktop memory standard. The split between DIMM and SO-DIMM only exists because SO-DIMM is worse, and DIMM is usable on both servers and desktops. CAMM2 is better than DIMM, and servers have mostly moved to different, incompatible memory types anyway.
- DaiPlusPlus 2y agoOoooh, okay. I was thinking of something horrible, like DisplayPort DSC… but for RAM, because in aggregate that would need less bandwidth and less pins.