Memory question

[king0]

If DDR6 ram was released would they have to be on motherboard that can support it if so would it also stall the DDR6 release because they would have to make motherboards to support the new memory sockets not asking for an eta just curious

[WereCat]

7 minutes ago, king0 said:

If DDR6 ram was released would they have to be on motherboard that can support it if so would it also stall the DDR6 release because they would have to make motherboards to support the new memory sockets not asking for an eta just curious

yes

[Kilrah]

Yes a new memory generation would likely use another socket - but it wouldn't "stall" anything, industry players of course talk together to work in parallel and get things ready roughly at the same time. 

[mariushm]

Memories are standardized by the JEDEC organization and big companies like AMD, Intel, Micron, Hynix, Samsung etc all contribute to the standards and have access  to preliminary versions of the standard so they can start working in advance at designing the memory chips, chipsets, memory controllers that are inside processors, support for the memories in bioses and just make small tweaks once the standard is official and published ...

 

Yes you would most likely need a new ram slot and new processor sockets if the new memory format is significantly different.