Micron Unveils Nvidia-Friendly SOCAMM

On the heels of announcing its 1-gamma DRAM that put a lot of emphasis on reduced power consumption, Micron Technology unveiled its 128GB small outline compression attached memory module (SOCAMM).

Leveraging LPDDR5X memory and co-developed with Nvidia, Micron’s SOCAMM will be in the upcoming GB300 Blackwell Ultra Superchip. In a briefing with EE Times, Praveen Vaidyanathan, Micron’s VP of DRAM process integration, said the value of LPDDR—which is a mainstay in mobile phones—is its lower power. Micron has been working on LPDDR technologies aimed toward the data center for four years.

“SOCAMM is essentially a modular version,” he said. “It is the highest capacity modular memory that we have built for data centers.”

Micron did add some features that make it different from the LPDDR that shows up in consumer products, including the test flows, but ultimately the goal is to leverage lower power in the data center as memory, performance and capacity are scaled up to meet AI workload demands, Vaidyanathan said. A SOCAMM consumes one-third the power compared to standard DDR5 registered dual in-line memory module. It is also easier to stack together, he added.