With this, all mainboards get an M.2 slot for you to install SSDs in

Jun 4, 2014 14:59 GMT  ·  By

The M.2 interface is a pretty interesting piece of work, allowing you to install SSDs as small as two fingers inside your PC. Also, the technology is really fast, capable of reaching 1.8 GB/s.

Well, assuming it's wired through the PCI Express interface. If it isn't, then you get the usual SATA limit of 6 Gbps.

As it happens, the new products that Apacer has introduced are, indeed, limited to SATA.

They're still enough to get your mind whirring though. Because they're not add-in cards meant to give your motherboard an interface it didn't have before.

Instead, they're memory modules that also have an M.2 slot on the upper edge. Combo SDIMM is what Apacer calls them.

Among the things on display at Computex 2014, they're among the most forward-looking and unusual. Some might call them outright strange even.

No word on the capacity of the RAM itself. Although considering how only half the PCB is taken up by DRAM chips, we're probably looking at, well, half the norm. 4 GB where it could have been 8 GB and so on.

Unfortunately, we have no way of finding out when the Apacer Combo-SDIMMs will sell, if ever, or for what prices. A shame, that.