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?

 

[Burticus]

half the performance for half the price?

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

ASUS just did this too, was going to post about it this morning but ran out of time.

 

[igor_kavinski]

but ran out of time.

You got me thinking like you have internet that needs coins

 

[Skillz]

You got me thinking like you have internet that needs coins

His AOL free Internet trial ran out.

 

[LazyGamer]

His AOL free Internet trial ran out.

I remember in 2002 I actually had to use AOL. We were at a training base in BFE central-ish Florida, and that was the only reliable option; even other dial-up services weren't as reliable.

To think we not only gamed on that, but we also downloaded games and patches and short videos and music and everything else...