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Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC (arstechnica.com)
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[–] grue@lemmy.world 154 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (27 children)

"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."

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Edit: to be clear, I was only trying to point out that "we’re being deliberate in making memory pricing more reasonable than you might find with other brands" is clearly targeting the Mac Mini, because Apple likes to price-gouge on RAM upgrades. ("Unamused face looking at Apple," get it? Maybe I emoji'd wrong.) My comment is not meant to be an opinion about the soldered RAM.

[–] Toes@ani.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Would 256GB/s be too slow for large llms?

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It runs on the gpu

[–] Acters@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Many LLM operations rely on fast memory and gpus seem to have that. Even though their memory is soldered and vbios is practically a black box that is tightly controlled. Nothing on a GPU is modular or repairable without soldering skills(and tools).

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