To support the ever-growing demand for greater memory capacity, the density of DRAM chips expands from time to time. This has historically meant that each chip density doubles, from 4Gbit to 8Gbit, 8Gbit to 16Gbit, for example, allowing for higher capacity memory modules (UDIMMs, SODIMMs, RDIMMs, etc) to be built for PCs and servers.
With the arrival of DDR5 (the fifth generation of Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory) in 2021, came significant advancements in memory technology to provide for not only higher speeds and greater bandwidth, but also the potential for much bigger memory capacities through the use of higher density DRAM chips.
