Rekall Incorporated@piefed.socialM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoProduction of DDR4 memory and motherboards is restarting amid unprecedented memory shortages — PC industry preparing for a world without DDR5www.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1158arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmit.online
arrow-up1158arrow-down1external-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 · 3 days agomessage-square18fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmit.online
minus-squarePhoenixz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·3 days 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-up20·3 days 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.”
minus-squarePiemanding@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoI would assume that building new machines/infrastructure for ddr5 is difficult so instead you can use old machines to supplement.
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.”
I would assume that building new machines/infrastructure for ddr5 is difficult so instead you can use old machines to supplement.