Source: Ars Technica
Article note: ... I ignored the first version of this story I saw because I assumed CAMM was about frequently talked about but rarely delivering "Content Addressable Memory" not "Compression Attached Memory." Overloaded acronym.
I see why vendors would like it now that I see a picture; it's thinner than SODIMM sockets and is a full-replacement-only upgrade.
Widespread adoption would at least be an improvement to soldered-in RAM.
Enlarge / The front of a 128GB Dell CAMM. (credit: Dell)
Move over, SO-DIMM. A new type of memory module has been made official, and backers like Dell are hoping that it eventually replaces SO-DIMM (small outline dual in-line memory module) entirely.
This month, JEDEC, a semiconductor engineering trade organization, announced that it had published the JESD318: Compression Attached Memory Module (CAMM2) standard, as spotted by Tom's Hardware.
CAMM2 was originally introduced as CAMM via Dell, which has been pushing for standardization since it announced the technology at CES 2022. Dell released the only laptops with CAMM in 2022, the Dell Precision 7670 and 7770 workstations.
