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After years of soldered-on RAM, a new memory module standard is making it possible to upgrade memory in slim laptops again — without sacrificing the power efficiency that drove soldering in the first place.
For most of the last decade, buying a thin laptop meant accepting that whatever RAM it shipped with was the RAM you'd have forever. LPCAMM2, a JEDEC-standardised memory module format first shipped in the Dell XPS 15 in late 2023, is changing that. In 2026, it has arrived in enough mainstream laptops to call it a trend.
LPCAMM2 is the JEDEC-standardized memory module that delivers full LPDDR5x bandwidth in a removable, upgradeable form factor — ending a decade of soldered RAM in thin laptops.
Modern processors are no longer single slabs of silicon. Chiplets — small, specialized dies connected by high-bandwidth links — are reshaping how chips are designed, manufactured, and scaled.
Once an academic curiosity, RISC-V now powers SSD controllers, AI accelerators, and data center chips. Here's how the open-source chip architecture finally made it to production — and what stands between it and the mainstream.
LPCAMM2 is the first memory standard that combines the low-power efficiency of LPDDR5x with a removable, user-upgradeable form factor, ending years of soldered-RAM lock-in for thin-and-light laptops. Here is what it means for buyers, upgraders, and the repairability movement.
LPCAMM2 is the first memory standard designed to be both thin-profile and upgradeable, ending the decade-long trade-off that forced consumers into soldered RAM. Here's what it means for your next laptop purchase.
Pre-release benchmark data for AMD's Zen 6 architecture shows a 28 percent instructions-per-clock improvement over Zen 5, with the Ryzen 9000X series targeting Intel's Arrow Lake in both single-thread and multi-thread workloads. Volume production is confirmed for Q3 2026.
AMD confirms Zen 6 desktop CPUs for 2026 while Intel prepares Nova Lake with up to 52 cores. Both chips target the same window, built on cutting-edge 2nm process nodes. Here is what the architecture differences mean for buyers.
LPCAMM2, the new memory standard that makes low-power soldered RAM upgradeable again, has moved from concept to consumer products in 2025. Here is what it means for laptop buyers and the broader PC ecosystem.
LPCAMM2 modules are ending the era of soldered laptop RAM, delivering LPDDR5X speeds from a removable slot that takes 30 seconds to swap. Here is which laptops support it now, what the performance tradeoff actually looks like, and what it means for repairability.
DDR5 module prices for consumer builds have climbed sharply in 2026, driven by a shortage in DRAM wafer supply and soaring demand from hyperscaler AI memory purchases. Here's what's happening and what buyers should do now.