Goodbye, SO-DIMM: Memory overseer JEDEC will formally adopt the “CAMM Common Spec” as the next RAM module standard for laptops. JEDEC, the memory group that homologates RAM standards, is in the process […]
Google Chrome has long had a reputation of being fast, secure… and ravenous for memory like a starving teenager at an all-you-can-eat buffet. But finally, Chrome is going to slim down right […]
It’s been a few years since memory capacity had a big jump, at least for most users. For example, my home-built desktops have been using 32GB of RAM for more than ten […]
Does The Last of Us send your gaming PC into a zombie-like shuffle? Do the advanced Unreal options in Fortnite make you search for the nearest lovingly-rendered bush to hide in? Do […]
Those fantastic new Ryzen 7000X3D chips and their accompanying AM5 motherboards have had some teething troubles with burning hardware, as Gamers Nexus covered in a series of scathing investigations. Not enough to […]
Modern PC games are gobbling up graphics card memory like never before. A swathe of recent triple-A games can consume more than 8GB of VRAM even at 1080p resolution. So, with the […]
The DDR5 memory standard, which was officially finalized in July 2020 with AMD Ryzen 7000 (“Raphael”) and Intel Core 13000 (“Alder Lake”), only really started to slowly replace its DDR4 predecessor in […]
As CPU makers push microprocessors even faster, a PC’s memory must keep up as well. JEDEC, a key chip standards body, has responded by issuing a new DDR5 memory standard that pushes […]
Microsoft has released version 125 of the Microsoft Edge browser and it’s an intriguing one with more news than usual. One of the most interesting additions is a new slider that lets […]
CAMM2 is a new standard for laptop memory. It’s tiny, incredibly skinny, and compatible with modern DDR5 memory. That makes it a suitable replacement for space-hogging SO-DIMMs or soldered memory modules, which […]
