ASRock Develops HUDIMM: A New DDR5 Standard That Cuts Module Chip Count in Half

[David_Schroth]

In a market where DDR5 has become something of a luxury item thanks to AI infrastructure gobbling up DRAM supply, ASRock has announced a new memory standard it’s calling HUDIMM (Ed: Who?), short for Half-channel Unified DIMM. Announced April 17, the spec works by operating DDR5 in a single 32-bit sub-channel rather than the standard […]

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[LazyGamer]

Half-channel DDR5, and it's not April 1st...

 

[Brian_B]

Isn't that name from Game of Thrones or something

 

[Grimlakin]

So its a standard ai farms specifically won't want? But why would ram makers target that? I dont understand the purpose here.

 

[Uvilla]

Wow what a solution, before if budget contrained you, you'd would cut the amount, now you get to cut the amount AND have the privilage of cutting the bandwith too.
I truly and specifically expected to read the exact opposite, since theres a need for a dd5 diet, a better and faster way to use scarce resources was developed. But this?