Memory
When Micron announced plans to build two new fabs in the U.S. in 2022, the company vaguely said both would come online by the decade's end. Then, in 2023, it began to optimize its spending, which pushed production at these fabrication facilities. This week, the company outlined more precise timeframes for when its fabs in Idaho and New York will start operations: this will happen from calendar 2026 to calendar 2029. "These fab construction investments are necessary to support supply growth for the latter half of this decade," a statement by Micron in its Q3 FY2024 financial results report reads. "This Idaho fab will not contribute to meaningful bit supply until fiscal 2027 and the New York construction capex is not expected to contribute to...
G.Skill Reveals 2x8GB DDR4-4266 C19 and 4x16GB DDR4-3466 C14 Kits
Until recently enthusiasts who would like to use the fastest DDR4 memory with their Skylake-S processors had to use 4 GB DIMMs based on 4 Gb chips, typically sold...
17 by Anton Shilov on 5/20/2016
Crucial Announces 16GB Ballistix Sport LT DDR4-2400 SO-DIMMs
This week Crucial is introducing its first DDR4 SO-DIMMs for enthusiasts, designed for high-performance notebooks and small form-factor PCs. The Crucial Ballistix Sport LT PC4-19200 SO-DIMMs are available in...
11 by Anton Shilov on 5/18/2016
G.Skill Unveils New Trident Z DDR4: Five New Colors
G.Skill has introduced new additions to its Trident Z family of DDR4 memory modules, which are designed to simplify the lives of anyone who wants to color-coordinate their PC...
20 by Anton Shilov on 5/16/2016
Micron Confirms Mass Production of GDDR5X Memory
Micron Technology this week confirmed that it had begun mass production of GDDR5X memory. As revealed last week, the first graphics card to use the new type of graphics...
59 by Anton Shilov on 5/12/2016
Samsung Begins To Produce DDR4 Memory Using '10nm Class' Process Tech
Samsung Electronics has started to manufacture DDR4 memory using its new '10nm class' production technology. '10nm class', by definition, implies sub-20nm but without fully disclosing the methodology, similar to...
36 by Anton Shilov on 4/7/2016
Micron Begins to Sample GDDR5X Memory, Unveils Specs of Chips
This past week Micron has quietly added its GDDR5X memory chips to its product catalogue and revealed that the DRAM devices are currently sampling to partners. The company also...
37 by Anton Shilov on 3/29/2016
Price Check: Price Gap Between DDR3 and DDR4 Memory Almost Gone
Around a year ago DRAM manufacturers ended up pinning a lot of their hopes on DDR4 as a way to improve their profit margins. In the cutthroat and highly...
16 by Anton Shilov on 2/25/2016
Micron Reports on GDDR5X Dev Progress - Volume Production This Summer
Engineers from Micron Development Center in Munich (also known as Graphics DRAM Design Center) are well known around the industry for their contribution to development of multiple graphics memory...
17 by Anton Shilov on 2/9/2016
Corsair and G.Skill Introduce 128 GB (8x16 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory Kits
An average personal computer nowadays is equipped with 8 GB or less of DRAM, according to analysts from DRAMeXchange. Due to the requirements of Microsoft Windows 10 operating system...
10 by Anton Shilov on 1/21/2016
JEDEC Publishes HBM2 Specification as Samsung Begins Mass Production of Chips
The high-bandwidth memory (HBM) technology solves two key problems related to modern DRAM: it substantially increases bandwidth available to computing devices (e.g., GPUs) and reduces power consumption. The first-generation...
42 by Anton Shilov on 1/20/2016
G.Skill Introduces 64GB DDR4-3200 Memory Kits
Back in the days, enthusiasts of high-end personal computers had to make a choice between capacity and performance of their memory sub-systems. This year G.Skill, Corsair and a number...
8 by Anton Shilov on 12/22/2015
Intel Announces Optane Storage Brand For 3D XPoint Products
At IDF 2015 this year Intel has announced that their forthcoming 3D XPoint technology based products will be sold under a new brand for the company, Optane. The Optane products...
50 by Ryan Smith on 8/18/2015
Rambus To Go Into Fabless Chip Production, Announces RB26 DDR4 DIMM Chipset
Since its inception in 1990, DRAM technology company Rambus’s business model has been an unusual one, focused on the creation and licensing of technology as opposed to selling finished...
20 by Ryan Smith on 8/17/2015
Analyzing Intel-Micron 3D XPoint: The Next Generation Non-Volatile Memory
The current mainstream memory technologies, namely DRAM and NAND, have been around for decades. While clever engineering work has allowed the two to scale below 20nm geometries, both technologies...
80 by Kristian Vättö, Ian Cutress & Ryan Smith on 7/31/2015
G.Skill Announces DDR4-4000 and DRAM in Dual Channel Kits
At this point in time, the only commercial platform that runs DDR4 is the Haswell-E processor combined with the X99 chipset. For that platform, the processor has a quad-channel...
25 by Ian Cutress on 7/29/2015_carousel.jpg)
ASRock Rack Announces EP2C612D24 and 4L: Dual Socket Haswell-EP with 24 DDR4 Slots
Two things jumped out at me when I received this press release. Firstly the name, which comes out as a mouthful – it isn’t something you could casually mention...
48 by Ian Cutress on 5/23/2015
Corsair Now Retailing 128GB UDIMM DDR4 Kits, Starting at $1755
Not much exciting happens in the land of DRAM I know – usually the most exciting things occur when we get a standards change, or when capacities increase. Luckily...
39 by Ian Cutress on 5/15/2015
GeIL Launches the ‘Super Luce’ DDR4 Line with Heartbeat LEDs
An inescapable part of the world of self-building a personal computer is customization and aesthetics. For most users, and even some gamers, the box under the desk is built...
16 by Ian Cutress on 4/26/2015
G.Skill Announces 16GB Unbuffered Modules: 128GB Kit at DDR4-2800
One of the more important announcements this year in the world of DRAM has been the march towards 16GB un-buffered modules. We saw last year Intelligent Memory launch some...
33 by Ian Cutress on 4/24/2015
Corsair Releases Orange Dominator Platinum DDR4-3400 for GIGABYTE X99-SOC Champion
During CES earlier this year we spent some time at the Corsair booth and saw a beta system demoing an orange kit of DDR4-3400 modules on the X99-SOC Champion...
21 by Ian Cutress on 3/23/2015
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