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by wtallis 41 days ago
If an AI crash left the market with a glut of RDIMMs, we would absolutely see AliExpress sellers removing the individual DRAM packages from used RDIMMs and installing eight out of ten of them onto empty UDIMMs. The overhead costs would be a quick bit of hot air reflow, a 5V PMIC and associated components, and a new module PCB, and the sellers would get to build 10 UDIMMs for every eight RDIMMs they scavenge.