Comment by hn_submit
10 hours ago
The biggest advantage is that the older technology can also produced by Chinese manufacturers like CXMT. They're ramping up production to claim a sizeable portion of the market.
10 hours ago
The biggest advantage is that the older technology can also produced by Chinese manufacturers like CXMT. They're ramping up production to claim a sizeable portion of the market.
They are already able to produce state-of-the-art DRAM, not only old DDR4 or slower DDR5, but they have difficulties to ramp up production for such DRAM, for not being able to buy adequate equipment due to the US "sanctions".
For consumer use DDR4 is fine and price is the real obstacle as is availability. So if they can ramp up DDR4 production that would be far more useful than limited quantities of DDR5.