The CAMM design was developed by Dell and first introduced in laptops in April 2022, including the latest Dell XPS 15 machines.<\/p>\n
It was initially misunderstood to be proprietary, causing a furore in the tech community about the potential for customers to be locked into Dell’s ecosystem.<\/p>\n
But it later came to light that Dell developed the new module intending to have it adopted by all manufacturers.<\/p>\n
CAMM’s primary advantage over SO-DIMM is a higher memory density that can scale with ever-increasing clock speeds.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>This infographic shows the basic design of Dell’s CAMM RAM sticks<\/p><\/div>\n
A video by Linus Tech Tips (LTT)<\/strong><\/a> in November 2022 explained the technicalities of the issue and why CAMM could be very good for memory advancements.<\/p>\n SO-DIMM suffers from signal integrity degradation due to the distance between the RAM module’s chips and the processor on the mainboard. This can significantly increase memory latency.<\/p>\n That is why the latest and fastest memory products on the market have their dies mounted as close to the CPU as possible.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, this often requires that the memory be soldered to the motherboard, meaning consumers had to give up upgradeability. It also makes the repair process more difficult and expensive.<\/p>\n LTT said that even the largest CAMM memory reduces the distance to the CPU by 50% without sacrificing replaceability.<\/p>\n CAMM could even support low-power DDR RAM (LPDDR) on replaceable modules.<\/p>\n LPDDR6 is the preferred type of RAM on thin-and-light laptops and smartphones due to its power-saving capabilities but currently needs to be soldered onto the mainboard.<\/p>\n The 20 companies in Jedec’s task group have voted unanimously to approve the CAMM 0.5 spec.<\/p>\n It hopes to finalise the 1.0 spec by the second half of 2023.<\/p>\n Laptops with the approved CAMM spec are expected to start rolling out in 2024.<\/p>\n Because the CAMM sticks are only mechanically different from SO-DIMMs and use the same electrical components, they are not expected to be significantly more expensive at launch.<\/p>\n The first CAMM sticks are expected to be DDR5 with 6,400MHz transfer speeds.<\/p>\n A new specification of laptop RAM stick is expected to be approved by the second half of this year. Here is what it promises to improve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":476673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[83723,21490,225,48709,83725],"class_list":["post-476653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-compression-attached-memory-module-camm","tag-computer-memory","tag-dell","tag-jedec","tag-random-access-memory-ram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476767,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476653\/revisions\/476767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}First laptops with official CAMM spec launching next year<\/h2>\n
\nNow read: Intel launches record-setting desktop CPU \u2014 turbo frequency up to 6GHz<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"