If it makes life easier and better for customers and support guys then Iâm all for it.
But this is a corporation we are talking about hereâŚ
(I havent watched the clip as Iâm on hols)
We already have a standard. Why we would need another standard for the same thing?
Did you watch the video? It enables better performance at the higher capacities as it reduces the length of the traces, improving stability. I actually am cautiously optimistic about it. Dell submitted it to JEDEC so it might actually become a real standard. It looks as simple to replace as SO-DIMMS are so it doesnât reduce repairability.
Iâm always on board for innovation, and if the industry decides that this is a good way forward Iâm glad that Framework will be able to embrace the new tech easily and that my current laptop could take advantage of it with a new mainboard. Knowing that SODIMM has been around for 25 years, seeing a new RAM module that allows for thinner computers without requiring manufacturers to solder the RAM is great for repairability!
The new standard having been worked on by JDEC & DELL and opening up to laptop manufacturers everywhere, supports DIMM to CAMM adapters too and helps save materials/Pin Connections & Space.
What do you guys think?
Because I think it would help increase the options available to DIY Builders and people looking to find less-orthodox uses for their mainboards in this form factor
I dislike the fact that you have to replace the entire module to add more memory as opposed to popping in an extra DIMM, also DELL appears to have royalties on it? Otherwise seems like a good thing that framework should move to!
@Shiroudan Dell does that for now, but that is changing.
As for changing the whole module, you could use the adapter version and then just add more memory to that, which could be a compromise? There were some potential performance improvements alongside the space saving, and cost savings.
Besides Itâs not like people mix and match so much post-build, but I know some might add more memory down the road.
Well it seems LTT is now covering the topic
This seems like a cool change, I wonder if future desktop DDR can do the same too. But requiring to toss out the old module is sad.
Having watched the LTT video is seems like a nice idea but itâs really yet another âlaw of diminishing returnsâ as fas as Iâm concerned.
We have all this wonderful performance hardware but until lazy and incompetent developers and coders actually make their software make proper efficient use of it all, then whatâs the point?
Fed up of buying software that just crawls alone using 2 cores and sipping ram like its 2004.
@Jason_Dagless - that is a bitâŚaggressive. Youâre no doubt correct that certain optimizations can be made, but I donât believe that the general problem is as simple as you make it out to be.
Iâm just speaking as a consumer and customer of high-end hardware and computational software/ Of which the software cannot make use of said high-end hardware other than a half-hearted 30% usage etc.
You buy your 16-32 threads CPUs and latest RAM and GPU and your image enhancement software can only rip through a batch using 20% or either CPU or GPU. I have a 2014 based PC that modern software from the likes of say Topaz that can only use a fraction of what it can do.
The developers go âoh just run several batches together!â 
No! I just want to run one batch really fast, using all the power I paid for. 
As a consumer I say try harder guys! Fewer ânew featuresâ and just deliver better performance of what we already have!
Dell had some time ago release the Compression-Attached Memory Module standard and wants to make it open for everyone as an option for RAM ODMs can incorporate into their hardware, rather than (Small-Outline) Dual-Inline Memory Module Gdi I figured, but I really did search for camm before making my initial post in my thread.
Before you ask, So anyway yes I understand the complexity associated with this request. New boards wiill need to be engineered, which means no dice on this until 1st-gen Core (no âiâ) Intel and 5th gen Ryzen AMD. But even if it had to be proprietary CAMM modules can still use DIMM modules, which would mean in exchange for the possibility of being proprietary, Framework can provide adapters to become standard with DDR5, DDR6 or DDR7 support, so instead of a whole new motherboard only the space for RAM needs to be replaced.
This would then introduce a choice: re-use of cheaper DIMM modules, or use of new and potentially more-performative CAMM modules, probably exclusive to Framework should they canât use Dellâs reference design. I mean, theyâre already using Dellâs rear expansion with their own pinout, why not another Dell solution for RAM expansion options?
Yeah nah thatâs not how it works. the memory controller is on the cpu/soc and what memory that one supports canât really be changed with adapters. So you would still have different camm modules for different ddr versions. On the 13th gen intel versions it would theoretically be possible to support both ddr4 and ddr5 though because the memory controller supports both.
The killer feature camm would allow is swappable lpddr which would be pretty neat.
I am personally rooting for it to be good, sodimms are a preferable alternative to soldered memory but ran into itâs limits like 2 generations ago.
Itâs happening: JEDEC has published the CAMM2 standard (presumably named to differentiate it from Dellâs semi-proprietary CAMM) for DDR5 and LPDDR5/5X memory.
I still wouldnât expect to see this used in a Framework laptop until the transition to DDR6, since they seem to prefer compatibility with existing components in their designs rather than being on the bleeding edge (see: continuing to use DDR4 in the 12th- and 13th-gen Intel laptops).
https://www.jedec.org/news/pressreleases/jedec-publishes-new-camm2-memory-module-standard
I donât think itâs quite the same here, you can still used dimms with adabters. But from how it reads that would require the platform to use the non lp pinout which does reduce the utility of camm a bit.
Still great that it finally got ratified, since I wonât get a new one for a bunch of years I can wait XD.
I had forgotten about the adapters. Framework switching to CAMM but not using the LP pinout would be more annoying than continuing to use SODIMM sockets directly IMO.
Honestly kinda bummed they made it non interchangeable, even if current socs tend to require different sockets for lp and non lp it could have allowed for future dual mode sockets.
Still a move in a good direction though.