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Micron Confirms PMIC and VRM Shortages Are Hampering DDR5 Adoption

Intel's Alder Lake is the first mainstream platform with DDR5 memory support, but getting the appropriate memory modules is extremely hard due to an undersupply in some of the components, namely power management ICs (PMICs) and voltage regulating modules (VRMs).

Intel Alder Lake-P Mobile CPUs Now Shipping To OEM Customers

Intel’s Alder Lake-S desktop processors launched earlier this month to great fanfare. Intel was able to retake the gaming crown from AMD with two of the best CPUs for gaming -- the Core i9-12900K and Core i5-12600K -- while ushering in support for DDR5 memory and the PCIe 5.0 interface.