Comment on New Laptop Memory Is Here! LPCAMM2 Changes Everything! - iFixit Video
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 6 months agoThey explain in the video that SODIMM socketted RAM is bulky and power hungry. The low power chips used to need to be soldered, but this is a new way to use the low power smaller chips with a socket. That’s the difference.
MakePorkGreatAgain@lemmy.basedcount.com 6 months ago
ah, power constraints. yeah that tracks
seaQueue@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And signal integrity. At modern speeds trace lengths are spec’d in mils and dimms can be tough to design for (or just more expensive) so OEMs just solder ram directly.