Samsung First to Build a DDR4 DRAM Module
Samsung First to Build a DDR4 DRAM Module
Posted 01/05/2011 at 8:35am
| by Paul Lilly
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Is it time to move on from DDR3 already? Probably not, but the shift to DDR4 might be closer than you think. Enter Samsung, who says it just completed development of the industry's first DDR4 DRAM module using a 30nm manufacturing process.
"Samsung has been actively supporting the IT industry with our green memory initiative by coming up with eco-friendly, innovative memory products providing higher performance and power efficiency every year," said Dong Soo Jun, president, memory division, Samsung Electronics. "The new DDR4 DRAM will build even greater confidence in our cutting-edge green memory, particularly when we introduce four-gigabit (Gb) DDR4-based products using next generation process technology for mainstream application."
According to Samsung, the new DDR4 DRAM stick boasts performance of up to 2.133Gbps at 1.2V. Stick these new modules in a notebook and Samsung says you can expect power consumption to go down by 40 percent when compared to a 1.5V DDR3 module.
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chipwatcher
January 05, 2011 at 9:30pm
According to an article that was written for this magazine over a year ago the specifications for DDR4 DRAM offered only a minor performance improvement over DDR3. It was pointed out that the far better performance and lower power usage of DDR5 was why it was the new high end memory of choice for use with high end GPU's. Why would Samsung develop and try to sell DDR4 DRAM if the performance is not that great of an improvement over DDR3?
Unless; could it be that Samsung is out in the cold as far as owning and/ or licensing the IP necessary to produce DDR5 DRAM and is trying to muddy the water and delay the introduction of general purpose DDR5 DRAM by those who now produce DDR5 for use with GPU's and thus prolong its current profitable production of DDR3?
quickone
January 05, 2011 at 10:57am
Because when I am on my laptop I'm overly concerned with keeping my RAM use low to extend my battery, especially going from 1.5v to 1.2... For performance and power saving I'd much rather see SSD's and OLED in my laptop than DDR4
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