This only makes sense under the neoliberal assumptions that the financial side of the economy faithfully represents the real side. If they’re really doing the whole hullabaloo with the banks, dipping into funds, I guess they also believe that and are practicing neoliberal economics. If the real economy doesn’t suffer from lack of resources, and whatever they can’t make can be important from say China in exchange of oil and gas, they can go like this until they run out of something, people, oil or gas, or China stops buying those and/or selling other goods to them. I’m not rooting for the Russians to keep their war effort going but I think looking at the financial side alone has mislead us before.

As a Canadian, we’re also getting severe whiplash at what’s happening in the US. The opinions are rapidly shifting from them being a longtime friend to a dangerous foe. This was unthinkable a mere year ago.

Not to mention that it’s only been 85 years since the gas chambers.

Alright so this is where the next great cores are likely to come from.

As far as I read LPCAMM in its current state does not work for this. The electrical noise is too high. These things aren’t the same. A repairable waterproof phone can be made without glue by making it a bit thicker. In the case of RAM today, we’re hitting fundamental physics limitations with speed of electricity and noise. At this point the physical interconnect itself becomes a problem. Gold contact points become antennas that induce noise into adjacent parts of the system. I’m not trying to excuse Framework here. I’m saying that the difficulty here borders on the impossible. If this RAM was soldered and it had bandwidth no different than SODIMM or LPCAMM modules then I’d say Framework fucked up making it soldered, majorly. As I said, there’s no point buying this if you don’t care about the fast RAM and use cases that need it like LLMs. Regular ITX board with regular AM5 is the way to go.

E: To be clear, if this bandwidth could be achieved with LPCAMM, then Framework fucked up.

You get fast memory as a result. If you don’t care about the fast memory, there’s no good reason to buy this, with their motherboard. There’s a use case this serves which can’t be served by traditional slotted memory and the alternative is to buy 4-5 NVIDIA 3090/4090/5090. If you want that use case, then this is a pretty good deal.

My AM5 system doesn’t post with 128GB of 5600 DDR5 at higher than 4400 at JEDEC timings and voltage. 2 DIMMs are fine. 4 DIMMs… rip. So I’d say the present of DIMMs is already a bit shaky. DIMMs are great for lots of cheap RAM. I paid a lot less than what I’d have to pay for the equivalent size of RAM in a Framework desktop.

Good luck. You’re gonna need it.

Incredible. Putin in Hungary not OK. Netanyahu in Germany OK. If we didn’t have enough blatant examples that the rules based order is rules-for-thee-not-for-me, we got yet another one.

It’s a bit weird because the BGN is pegged to the Euro for a very long time. Sure some inflation might occur due to speculation that people won’t notice a price change but that’s about it.

The fairly mature internal component we’re working on is v0.0.134.