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SOCAMM2

Serviceable LPDDR5X memory module form factor; eight slots per Vera CPU provide up to 1.5 TB and 1.2 TB/s.

Current clusters

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Samsung puts MAC trees in every LPDDR5X bank because HBM costs too much

At Hot Chips 2026 Samsung detailed a validated LPDDR5X-PIM part claiming 614 GB/s of internal bandwidth and 2.28x to 3.01x inference gains over plain LPDDR5X.

Publishers:tomshardware.com

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption18
Hype gap+34
Incentives74

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Nvidia's 88-core Vera bets agentic serving runs out of bandwidth before it runs out of cores

One SKU, one compute die, 1.2 TB/s of LPDDR5X, and benchmark wins over a 96-core EPYC. The comparison with AMD's Venice is being set on Nvidia's terms rather than on core counts.

Publishers:tomshardware.com

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption12