MSI and Kingston to Showcase DDR5 CAMM2 at Computex Taipei 2024

TapTechNews May 23rd, MSI announced that it will partner with Kingston to showcase the MSI Z790 PROJECT ZERO PLUS motherboard equipped with the Kingston FURY Impact DDR5 CAMM2 prototype memory module at Computex Taipei 2024.

MSI refers to this combination of memory and motherboard prototype product as the next revolution in the field of memory design, and says that the compact and slender physical form of the DDR5 CAMM module contains overclocking potential and excellent efficiency.

TapTechNews observed and compared and found that the Kingston's DDR5 CAMM2 memory prototype module has a significant difference in appearance from the DDR5 CAMM module used in Dell's 2022 laptops: there is no back side area (that is, the top area of the module in the figure below) where the gold fingers for compression connection are visible in the front viewable area.

Compared with the already launched Z790 PROJECT ZERO motherboard, the MSI Z790 PROJECT ZERO PLUS motherboard has made a relatively large adjustment in the PCB memory area for the DDR5 CAMM2 module, but there is no obvious change in the non-memory area.

According to the CAMM2 memory module technical standard press release of the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, DDR5 CAMM2 memory is not only for high-performance laptops, but also suitable for mainstream desktop computers.

DDR5 CAMM2 will adopt the same connector design as the existing LPDDR5 CAMM2 memory module, but have different pin arrangements to avoid user confusion.

SK Hynix also said at the beginning of this year's CES2024 that it has started the research and development of CAMM memory modules for the desktop side.