DDR5 will have ECC. I can't believe it took them so long to make ECC standard for consumer memory. Jesus F. Christ.
Relevant Linus Torvalds rant: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...es-intel-for-lack-of-ecc-ram-in-consumer-pcs/ Non-ECC RAM has actually been used to demonstrate proof-of-concept security attacks through the internet. Many years ago, at the BlackHat conference (or was it Defcon? It's been a while) they showed an experiment where they registered internet domains that had the names of the windows update servers but had one bit flipped at random. Those domains ended up getting "windows update" requests from a large number of machines. The only explanation is that random memory bit-flips caused the machines to go look up one of those fake domains. They had registered several of those fake domains, each corresponding to a particular bit-flip.
Gotta be one of the most interesting things I've watched lately. Loved the bit about Toyota and NASA though, laughed out loud
Also to follow up on article's cost point of view: if ECC RAM had been used more commonly, it would carry even less to none of a price "premium". Heck, it could very well have become the standard and non-ECC memory would have been discontinued.