> While this makes for slightly shorter path lengths, the only real gain is motherboard footprint. Well, that and the ability to use LPDDR5 in the first place.

> While this makes for slightly shorter path lengths, the only real gain is motherboard footprint. Well, that and the ability to use LPDDR5 in the first place. There’s no such thing as a pluggable LPDDR5 stick; the design decisions around low voltages & high signaling rates make it physically impractical to survive the longer traces and discontinuities involved in the signal traversing a connector.