The thinner and lighter laptops become, the more components are integrated on a printed circuit board, leaving less and less room for plug-in modules. No exception, and memory modules - Installation of RAM chips directly on the printed circuit board laptop these days has become commonplace. SO-DIMM connector on some laptops, as a result of such changes may be absent.
As reported by the site DigiTimes, Intel Apollo Lake mastering platform notebook manufacturers increasingly abandoning the SO-DIMM in favor of the installation of memory chips directly on the motherboard. This reduces the thickness of the notebook, not to mention reducing the cost of construction. There is a growing interest in and to the type of memory LPDDR4, which reduces the notebook power consumption. It seems that the idea of ??self-increase the amount of memory in laptops eventually have to give up completely.
In the second half of the year, according to the source, many large manufacturers will focus on mobile devices such as hybrid and ultra-thin models, so the trends described above will only gain momentum. Volumes of supplies Intel Apollo Lake processors will increase in the fourth quarter.