Rekall Incorporated@piefed.socialM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours agoProduction of DDR4 memory and motherboards is restarting amid unprecedented memory shortages — PC industry preparing for a world without DDR5www.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1104file-text
arrow-up1104external-linkProduction of DDR4 memory and motherboards is restarting amid unprecedented memory shortages — PC industry preparing for a world without DDR5www.tomshardware.comRekall Incorporated@piefed.socialM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours agomessage-square13fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePhoenixz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 hours agoThen… Why don’t you just increase production of DDR5? Why DDR4? Why not go back to DDR3 then while we’re at it? This is so weird
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·36 minutes agoLast line of the article: “One of the key shortages right now is advanced packaging, which DDR5 requires with an integrated PMIC. DDR4, by comparison, is much simpler to package and sell, which should help keep prices from climbing into the DDR5 range.”
Then… Why don’t you just increase production of DDR5? Why DDR4? Why not go back to DDR3 then while we’re at it?
This is so weird
Last line of the article:
“One of the key shortages right now is advanced packaging, which DDR5 requires with an integrated PMIC. DDR4, by comparison, is much simpler to package and sell, which should help keep prices from climbing into the DDR5 range.”