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by bobmcnamara 692 days ago
>I gather in the early days the LPDDR used on laptops was slower too

Oddly, the latency hasn't improved too much - CAS is often 5-10ns for DDR2/3/4/5. Bus width, transfers per second, queueing, power per bit transfered and stored have, but if a program depends on something that's not in cache and was poorly predicted, the RAM latency is the issue.