The Intel Coffee Lake Refresh will support up to 128GB DDR4 thanks to a new memory controller

Thanks to the new memory controller, the Intel Coffee Lake Refresh processors support up to 128GB of RAM.

The new Intel Coffee Lake Refresh processors are based on 14nm lithography and are a simple upgrade from the Coffee Lake with a few more cores and few more improvements. One of the most interesting improvements is the improvement of the integrated memory controller, in addition to being the first processor that has an improvement at the silicon level to tackle the Specter and Meltdown vulnerabilities.

Intel Coffee Lake Refresh improves the integrated memory controller.

This new Dual Channel memory controller is 128 bits, which is why it offers support for a maximum of 128GB of RAM, which is twice the support of its direct rival on the market, the AMD Ryzen.

That Intel processors support so much memory is not something that ends up surprising this fact since, among other things, motherboards with Intel Z390 chipset offer a DIMM.2 port that allows the inclusion of the new Double Capacity RAM memory modules, which which allows only one RAM module to reach 32GB DDR4 capacity.

Logically this for the common of the mortals does not have much interest, since the gamers usually are between 8GB and 16GB and always in two modules to take advantage of the Dual Channel system. For the professional segment it is not that it has excessive technical need for 128GB, since 64GB are normally mounted and that is usually more than enough and workstations already usually use Xeon or Core-X processors at most.

Although now it seems something a bit crazy and the price of the RAM is not particularly good, we could be facing an interesting solution in the future for a very specific audience or an added value compared to the solutions of the competition.

Source: TPU