{"id":1646682,"date":"2026-07-27T14:56:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/C9888PHBTKXtbzyc75HYjT"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:56:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:56:54","slug":"microns-low-power-dram-consumes-approximately-one-third-the-power-of-ddr5-in-ai-data-center-workloads-but-im-not-sure-thats-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/microns-low-power-dram-consumes-approximately-one-third-the-power-of-ddr5-in-ai-data-center-workloads-but-im-not-sure-thats-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Micron’s low power DRAM ‘consumes approximately one-third the power of DDR5’ in AI data center workloads, but I’m not sure that’s good news"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AI’s hunger for both power and memory, plus the resulting supply crisis of the latter, has led to many industry players engaging in a spot of creative problem solving. Case in point, Micron and Meta have collaborated on an experimental data centre roll out of low power DRAM.<\/p>\n

Micron has developed SOCAMM2<\/a>, a fresh form factor for LPDDR5X that is a “modular, serviceable module designed for servers.” Testing used “Meta\u2019s open-source DCPerf benchmark suite, which reflects production environments across a hyperscale fleet,” and found that this low-power DRAM module “consumes approximately one-third the power of DDR5.” According to Micron’s white paper report<\/a>, that accounts for under 7% of total system power.<\/p>\n

The white paper goes on to elaborate that LPDDR5X’s “reduced operating voltage and advanced signalling allows bandwidth to scale without a corresponding rise in power consumption, resulting in better bandwidth-per-watt performance than conventional server memory.” Basically, data centres can install more low power DRAM without also hiking up power-related operating costs.<\/p>\n

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