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**SEO News Summary: MRDIMM Gen2 and DDR5-8000 RDIMMs Target Next-Gen Server Memory Bandwidth** For readers tracking server memory, AI chip, and data center infrastructure trends, the core news from Computex is that next-generation x86 server platforms from Intel and AMD are driving rapid memory advancements, with Micron launching DDR5-8000 RDIMMs and Samsung developing MRDIMM Gen2 reaching 12,800 MT/s. Micron’s DDR5-8000 RDIMMs, showcased at the event, double current DDR5-6400 speeds and support high-capacity 256GB modules using 32Gbit dies on its 1y process, offering better energy efficiency per picojoule. Meanwhile, Samsung’s MRDIMM Gen2 pushes multiplexer rank DIMMs to 12,800 MT/s—a 45% bandwidth increase over Gen1’s 8,800 MT/s. Using DDR5-6400 memory in interleaved mode, the new MRDIMMs top out at 128GB capacity, trading off capacity for speed versus standard RDIMMs. Samsung targets AMD’s EPYC “Venice” platform (expected later this year with 16 memory channels) for MRDIMM Gen2, potentially delivering 1.6 TB/s total bandwidth—a massive jump from today’s 0.6 TB/s on 12-channel DDR5-6400 EPYC 9005. Intel’s Diamond Rapids Xeon (2027) also supports 16 channels. These developments underscore that higher clocked RDIMMs and MRDIMMs, alongside additional memory channels, are critical to alleviating memory bandwidth bottlenecks in next-gen servers and data centers.