DDR4 is the common desktop/laptop chip. LPDDR5 is cell-phone chip, so its kinda funny to see a low-power RAM being used in a very wide fashion like this.
Don't cell phones sell more than desktops, laptops, and servers? Smartphones aren't a toy: they are the highest volume computing device.
They are also innovating with things like on-chip ECC for LPDDR4+, while desktop DDR4 still doesn't have ECC thanks to Intel intentionally gimping it for market segmentation.
Well sure. But that doesn't change the fact that DDR5 doesn't exist in any real numbers.
LPDDR5 is a completely different protocol from DDR5 by the way, just like GDDR5 is completely different from DDR3 it was based on. LPDDR3 was maybe the last time the low-power series was something like DDR3 (the mainline).
Today, LPDDR5 is based on LPDDR4, which diverged significantly from DDR4.
> They are also innovating with things like on-chip ECC for LPDDR4+
DDR5 will have on-chip ECC standard, even unbuffered / unregistered.
DDR4 is the common desktop/laptop chip. LPDDR5 is cell-phone chip, so its kinda funny to see a low-power RAM being used in a very wide fashion like this.