Memory
High-bandwidth memory has been around for about a decade, and throughout its its continued development it has steadily increased in speed, starting at a data transfer rate from 1 GT/s (the original HBM) and reaching upwards of 9 GT/s with the forthcoming HBM3E. This has made for an impressive jump in bandwidth in less than 10 years, making HBM an important cornerstone for whole new classes of HPC accelerators that have since hit the market. But it's also a pace that's getting harder to sustain as memory transfer rates increase, especially as the underlying physics of DRAM cells have not changed. As a result, for HBM4 the major memory manufacturers behind the spec are planning on making a more substantial change to the high-bandwidth...
TeamGroup Announces Intentions for DDR5, ELITE DDR5-5200 in 2021
Earlier in the year, we learned that a lot of DDR5 manufacturing is already in the pipeline, with Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron all making announcements this year regarding...
19 by Gavin Bonshor on 12/1/2020
Microchip Announces PCIe 5.0 And CXL Retimers
Microchip is entering the market for PCIe retimer chips with a pair of new retimers supporting PCIe 5.0's 32GT/s link speed. The new XpressConnect RTM-C 8xG5 and 16xG5 chips...
8 by Billy Tallis on 11/11/2020
Compute eXpress Link 2.0 (CXL 2.0) Finalized: Switching, PMEM, Security
One of the more exciting connectivity standards over the past year has been CXL. Built upon a PCIe physical foundation, CXL is a connectivity standard designed to handle much...
5 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/10/2020
Insights into DDR5 Sub-timings and Latencies
Today we posted a news article about SK hynix’s new DDR5 memory modules for customers – 64 GB registered modules running at DDR5-4800, aimed at the preview systems that...
87 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/6/2020
DDR5 is Coming: First 64GB DDR5-4800 Modules from SK Hynix
Discussion of the next generation of DDR memory has been aflutter in recent months as manufacturers have been showcasing a wide variety of test vehicles ahead of a full...
46 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/6/2020
Micron Spills on GDDR6X: PAM4 Signaling For Higher Rates, Coming to NVIDIA’s RTX 3090
It would seem that Micron this morning has accidentally spilled the beans on the future of graphics card memory technologies – and outed one of NVIDIA’s next-generation RTX video...
68 by Ryan Smith on 8/20/2020
DDR5 Memory Specification Released: Setting the Stage for DDR5-6400 And Beyond
Marking an important milestone in computer memory development, today the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association is releasing the final specification for its next mainstream memory standard, DDR5 SDRAM. The...
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PNY Unveils XLR8 Gaming Epic-X RGB DDR4-3200 Memory
Perhaps more widely known for its array of NVIDIA based graphics cards, American based company PNY has announced its latest product, the XLR8 Gaming Epic-X RGB DDR4 memory. Built...
27 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/14/2020
SK Hynix: HBM2E Memory Now in Mass Production
Just shy of a year ago, SK Hynix threw their hat into the ring, as it were, by becoming the second company to announce memory based on the HBM2E...
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GeIL Unveils Orion Series Memory, Up to DDR4-4000 with 32 GB Memory Modules
GeIL has announced its newest family of DDR4 modules, the Orion series. Available in two versions, one standard and one for AMD platforms, the Orion series offers SKUs ranging...
7 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/11/2020
Patriot's New 32GB Modules Available: UDIMM up to DDR4-3600, SODIMM up to DDR4-3000
Patriot has released a new series of DDR4 32GB memory modules in its VIPER GAMING STEEL series, complementing the 32GB offerings of the Blackout series as well as for...
11 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/9/2020
New ZADAK Twist DDR4 Memory, Up to DDR4-4133 and 256 GB
ZADAK has announced its latest range of DDR4 memory, the Twist series. Designed for users looking for a lower profile alternative to its previous memory brands, the Twist features...
7 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/6/2020
GeiL Unveils 64 GB DDR4-3200 SO-DIMM Kit, 2 x 32 GB
Memory manufacturer Golden Emporer International Limited, or known generally as GeiL, has announced its new memory line with support for Intel 10th Gen and AMD Ryzen 4000 series processors...
21 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/5/2020
XPG Spectrix D50 Memory: A More Subtle RGB DDR4
ADATA's XPG division has unveiled its latest addition in the high-performance DRAM segment, the Spectrix D50. Starting from 8 GB DDR4-3000 modules, the latest Spectrix D50 kits will go...
22 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/15/2020
ADATA's New 32 GB DDR4-3200 SO-DIMM, Ideal for Ryzen Mobile
ADATA, one of the leading manufacturers of DRAM and NAND products, has just unveiled its latest memory modules. The new ADATA DDR4-3200 32 GB parts are available in both...
41 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/15/2020
China Develops High Capacity QLC 3D NAND: YMTC at 1.33 Tb
Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC) has announced that it's developed its new 128-layer 1.33 Tb QLC 3D NAND memory chip, the X2-6070. The new chip is based on its...
64 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/13/2020
SK Hynix: We're Planning for DDR5-8400 at 1.1 Volts
Back in November last year, we reported that SK Hynix had developed and deployed its first DDR5 DRAM. Fast forward to the present, and we also know SK Hynix...
86 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/3/2020
Micron to Start Volume Production of 128-Layer 3D NAND with RG Architecture This Quarter
As part of the company's second quarter financial earnings call, Micron has revealed that it is about to start volume production of its 4th Generation 3D NAND memory devices...
10 by Anton Shilov on 4/1/2020
Cadence DDR5 Update: Launching at 4800 MT/s, Over 12 DDR5 SoCs in Development
JEDEC still has not published the DDR5 specification officially, yet it looks like DRAM makers and SoC designers are preparing for the DDR5 launch at full steam. Cadence, which...
20 by Anton Shilov on 3/27/2020
TeamGroup Announces 32GB T-Force Vulcan Z and Dark Z DDR4 Modules
One of the world's largest DRAM memory manufacturers TeamGroup has unveiled its first DDR4 memory kits featuring 32 GB sticks under its gaming-focused T-Force brand. The T-Force Vulcan Z...
7 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/27/2020
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