When it comes to motherboards, they have to develop the slot / physical form factor for the memory chips and get motherboard manufacturers to begin adopting it, whereas GPU manufacturers can just begin integrating the new memory on their boards when they feel the price/performance ratio is worth it.

Because it’s GDDR memory, not DDR. They’re two different standards that aren’t interchangeable.

https://www.technipages.com/whats-the-difference-between-ddr-and-gddr-memory/

TL;DR it’s like the difference between a GPU and a CPU. Similar acronyms, different function.

DDR5 (general compute memory) actually isn’t the same as GDDR5 (graphics compute memory). I am no expert in this field, but you can read about the differences on wikipedia. This excerpt sums it up:

Their primary characteristics are higher clock frequencies for both the DRAM core and I/O interface, which provides greater memory bandwidth for GPUs.

Basically, GPUs need a ton of bandwidth but can withstand latency due to the predictable timings of the framerate.

I also assume that because the GPUs processing and memory are on the same board they have less friction in using newer standards. When dealing with CPUs the memory standards need to line up between different physical parts (CPU, motherboard, RAM).