Qimonda DDR3 moving forward
IDF San Francisco DDR4 confirmed for 2012 - Voltages dropping further...
THE DDR3 TALK here by Qimonda (yeah, a seemingly vulgar word in some Latin lingos) was filled to the capacity.
It showed a couple of interesting points, starting with the 1Gb dies becoming mainstream by early next year. According to the speaker, the 2Gb dies are also due soon, with take off pipped for mid next year.
That happens to be the expected DDR2-to-DDR3 crossover time as well, when the DDR3 would take the majority of new shipments for the first time.
Interestingly, the voltage reduction is more of a focus now, not just the speed:
the push to run DDR3-1333 at 1.35 volts for 2009 is there, reducing the power
consumption by some 17 per cent.
At the high end, their Xtune Aeneon overclocker's memory runs DDR3-1800 - CL10 though - speed at standard 1.5 volts. This should help with cooling. Not bad if having four 2GB modules, giving 8GB of densely packed RAM without having to worry about the heat.
Then we come to the DDR4 intro for 2012 on a 30nm process, and targeted for 1.2
volt level. The 2012 DDR4 speeds look to start with DDR4-2133 and moving quickly
to DDR4-2667 mainstream and DDR4-3200 "enthusiast" speeds in 2013.
But hold on, that's after the Dec 2012 "end of the world" date prophesised by quite a few calendars, isn't it? µ
Comments
2012
some say it's not the end of the world but a change of collective consciousness through out the world. Which is going to considered the end the "world" as we know it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YomEEicpxcclooks likes that's going to be happening with ddr3/4 :-D
End of World
Yeah, so I look for DDR4 to have a *very* short life, and DDR5 to not make it to the starting block at all.Isn't it wonderful knowing that soon all will come to an end?
DAMN ...
I was hoping no one would mention that "end of the world" thingy ... I had such high hopes for a totally kick-ass Nehalem rig by that time ...Turtle ram
I prefer to see ram with less latency rather than more brute speed. Aside from the synthetic benchmarksDDR 400 doesn't feel "slow".If we altogether
sacrifice the ram, will we still come to the end of timings?fo from DDR3 to DDR5
I think that DDR4 should be skipped altogether.Focus DDR4 resources on speeding up DDR5 development. Graphics DDR4 had a short life, and didn't provide significant improvement over DDR3. Same is bound to happen in computer RAM world. Don't make the same mistake, skip a generation, and move from DDR3 to DDR5.