Team Group Reports DDR5 Development for Laptops and Mini PCs

Team Group has created its first DDR5 SO-DIMM module. That module should bring DDR5 to laptops and mini PCs, the company says. The memory manufacturer expects it to be the first to send SO-DIMM format DDR5 to Intel and AMD for validation.

Team Group reports in a press release that the memory module is still under development, but already says that it has a capacity of 16GB and works at 4800MT/s. The module also works on a voltage of 1.1V, which according to the manufacturer is especially useful for laptops, because of the influence on the battery life and standby time. This is the voltage as specified in the Jedec specification.

The DDR5 SO-DIMM module supports error-correcting code on the memory chips, or on-die error-correcting code. This causes the memory module to automatically recover single-bit errors, making the memory module more stable. It was previously unknown whether all DDR5 modules will receive standard ECC support, but Team Group reports that its SO-DIMM modules at least do.

In December, Team Group already announced that it had sent regular DDR5 modules to motherboard manufacturers for validation. These modules are identical in specifications to these newly announced SO-DIMMs. These also had a storage capacity of 16GB at a speed of 4800 mega transfers per second and also run on standard voltage of 1.1V.

It is not yet known when Team Group hopes to bring DDR5 SO-DIMM to consumer product manufacturers. For now, there is no system that supports the memory standard, but it is rumored that both AMD and Intel are working on support for DDR5 in their upcoming Zen4 and Alder Lake platforms. Team Group has sent the DDR5 SO-DIMM to both brands for validation.