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RISC-V chips will support replacing RAM sticks without powering off the system — hot plugging functionality arriving in newer flavors of Linux
According to a report from Phoronix, version 6.11 of the mainline Linux kernel, which seems set to launch soon, will add support for RISC-V memory hot plugging. The Linux kernel already offered ...
TweakTown11mon
RISC-V systems support replacing RAM sticks WITHOUT powering off the system
meaning you can pull RAM sticks out of your PC without turning it off... very nice. The Linux kernel already supported this RAM hot-swappable feature for other CPU architectures, but for the long ...
The Verge12mon
This is Lunar Lake — Intel’s utterly overhauled AI laptop chip that ditches memory sticks
it won’t have separate memory sticks or chips! Lunar Lake now bakes 16 or 32GB of LPDDR5X memory into the package itself, with no ability to connect more RAM. It’s a change that reduces the ...
Android Authority12mon
Intel Lunar Lake is here, and RAM is built right into it, which is just wild for Intel
That means motherboards using this chip will not need separate slots for RAM sticks. It also means, of course, that upgrading RAM will be impossible without upgrading the CPU itself. Intel says ...
The Verge7mon
Intel’s future laptops will have memory sticks again
And it may abandon desktop GPUs. And it may abandon desktop GPUs. Sean Hollister is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing ...