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There are 16GB SODIMMs, so why isn't Intel supporting those? The company that makes them claims this is purely on Intel/OEMs. 1: http://www.intelligentmemory.c
by MichaelGG 12y ago
There are 16GB SODIMMs, so why isn't Intel supporting those? The company that makes them claims this is purely on Intel/OEMs.
1: http://www.intelligentmemory.com/dram-modules/ddr3-so-dimm/ http://www.intelligentmemory.com/dram-modules/ddr3-so-dimm/
Update: Oh wow, the new Broadwell chips do support them. So maybe the new ThinkPad X250 isn't so useless after all! This is great news if true.
- yuhong 12y agoIntelligent Memory's are probably too expensive for the normal laptop market. Micron claims to be sampling them now: http://www.micron.com/products/dram-modules/sodimm/DDR3%20SDRAM#/density=16GB http://www.micron.com/products/dram-modules/sodimm/DDR3%20SD...
- MichaelGG 12y agoThey're supposed to be priced around $350 or so, at least that's what I see from last year. How is that too expensive? An X series ThinkPad is like $2300+ with a good config. Adding another few hundred so I can have a decent amount of RAM sounds like a no-brainer. (Or, Lenovo could put IBM engineering in charge and figure out how to get 2 slots back on the X series.)
- yuhong 12y agoI am thinking of the two 16GB DIMM setup, sorry.
- Performer 12y agoBe careful... the 5th gen Intel CPUs can NOT run with standard 16GB modules. There is a technical issue which causes instabilities with 16GB modules, except if the modules are specially made to cover this issue. The Intelligent Memory modules do that.
- yuhong 12y agoI wonder if this issue is actually in hardware or just in the MRC.
- yuhong 12y agohttp://techreport.com/discussion/27928/intel-xeon-d-brings-broadwell-to-cloud-web-services http://techreport.com/discussion/27928/intel-xeon-d-brings-b... mentions 16GB per UDIMM.