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@wolf480pl that’s what I’ve been wondering too

An interesting quote from an Ars Technica article covering the news:

“To enable the massive 256GB/s memory bandwidth that Ryzen AI Max delivers, the LPDDR5x is soldered,” writes Framework CEO Nirav Patel in a post about today’s announcements. “We spent months working with AMD to explore ways around this but ultimately determined that it wasn’t technically feasible to land modular memory at high throughput with the 256-bit memory bus. Because the memory is non-upgradeable, we’re being deliberate in making memory pricing more reasonable than you might find with other brands.”

Makes me wonder if the memory speed is the reason they weren’t able to go with LPCAMM2 (since that currently seems to only reach ~7200 MT/s)