Samsung Unveils 32 GB DDR4-2666 SO-DIMMs
Samsung on Wednesday introduced its first consumer products based on its 16 Gb DDR4 memory chips demonstrated earlier this year. The new SO-DIMMs are aimed at high-performance notebooks that benefit from both speed and capacity of memory modules.
Samsung's new 32 GB DDR4 SO-DIMMs based on 16 Gb DDR4 memory ICs (integrated circuits) are rated for a 2666 MT/s data transfer rate at 1.2 V. Because the 16 Gb memory chips are made using Samsung's 10 nm-class process technology, the new module is claimed to be 39% more energy efficient than the company's previous-gen 16 GB SO-DIMM based on 20 nm-class ICs. According to Samsung, a laptop equipped with 64 GB of new memory consumes 4.578 W in active mode, whereas a notebook outfitted with 64 GB of previous-gen DDR4 consumes 7.456 W in active mode.
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Samsung press release. Also at Tom's Hardware and DigiTimes.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday June 04 2018, @02:37PM
I mean "invest" in a similar manner to sport divers who invest in bigger, lighter, aluminum air tanks. Or, mountain climbers invest in higher quality rope, pitons, and carabiners. I don't use a computer to make my living, but I'm willing to "invest" in something that can be compared to my desktop. 32 gig of ram, and an octocore CPU, with a sweet Nvidia 1080? It may not exactly keep up with my server which serves as a desktop, but it would be in the ballpark. Then again, applications optimized to make full use of that GPU would fly, better than my twelve core rig, sporting a 3 generations old GPU.