Samsung rolls 8Gbyte DDR3 SODIMM, Dell picks it up immediately, stuffs four into 17-inch mobile workstation

Samsung has announced that it is now shipping 8Gbyte DDR3 SODIMM SDRAM modules for high-end laptops that can accommodate that much memory. The modules are based on Samsung’s 40nm SDRAMs. (As noted previously, Samsung just announced production of 36nm SDRAM chips.) Many laptops aren’t designed to accommodate that much RAM, but Dell’s Precision M6500 mobile workstation can accommodate as many as four of these modules, for a total RAM capacity of 32 Gbytes. The Dell Precision M6500 has a 17-inch display, so it’s on the large side for a laptop PC. Dell is also placing two of these modules in its 15-inch Precision M4500 mobile workstation.