Preliminary spec for the next generation DDR-II !!

[Mem]

I don`t think this has been posted yet



<< 06/25/01, 09:26:28 PM EST)

JEDEC announced Monday that the industry standards body had approved the preliminary spec for the next generation DDR-II memory chip, which is expected to be in production in 2003.

A panel of 120 companies approved the spec at a recent meeting in Tokyo. JEDEC officials said initial samples of the DDR-II chip should be available in 2002, with production coming nine to 18 months later. DDR-II is expected to be lower voltage at 1.8V, with speeds up to 533MHz. The chip is also expected to be optimized as memory for both PC and handheld devices.

As part of the preliminary spec, JEDEC approved 400 and 533MHz DDR chips. Comparable DDR memory modules would carry the PC3200 nomenclature for a 3.2Gbyte/s bandwidth using the 400MHz chip, and PC4300, with a bandwidth of 4.3GBytes/s for the 533MHz chip.

JEDEC officials said the memory panel will now turn its attention to a DDR-III specification for a chip to follow in the 2004 to 2005 time period. Sources said DDR-III could be combined with the work of the Advanced DRAM Technology industry group, which includes Intel Corp. and a number of leading memory makers. >>





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[MrHelpful]

Eat that RAMBUS!

 

[Duvie]

I imagine Rambus probably aren't invited to those panels anymore...JEDEC probably doesn't want to get screwed over by those fraudulent arses again...

You got to love this standardization when it comes to most technology. The cost is kept to a minimum and we as buyers are not constantly confused by competing formats that may leave them in the cold if one format just fails.

 

[Mem]

DDR memory needs to get faster which will make it more attractive,most people I know prefer DDR to rambus,yet on sales DDR is not doing that well which I thought was unusual,maybe just a question of time.

 

[grant2]

DDR memory needs to get faster which will make it more attractive,most people I know prefer DDR to rambus,yet on sales DDR is not doing that well which I thought was unusual,maybe just a question of time.

Considering you'd only buy DDR to go with an AMD cpu, and AMD only has about 20% of the market... how well DID you expect it to do?

 

[MichaelD]

Wow. PC 4300. Rock on! Zzzzoooooom! Bandwith? I gots me lotsa stinkin' bandwith! Sisoft is gonna have to make the SANDRA bar-graph results page a lot wider! Nice catch, Mem!

 

[Pabster]

Unfortunately, with DDR only using about 40% or so of that &quot;peak&quot; bandwidth, and RAMBUSt using ~50% only, their needs to be a major improvement before we'll be able to truly realize the performance of such modules.

 

[AvidOC]

sweet!!
give me an excuse to get a DDR Platform now 🙂

 

[nortexoid]

<< Considering you'd only buy DDR to go with an AMD cpu, and AMD only has about 20% of the market... how well DID you expect it to do? >>



Huh?...Via makes a DDR chipset for Intel chips (and thus Cyrix, non?)...

so u could basically run DDR on any machine except a P4...regardless, pc133 is so cheap, and dumb OEMs figure people don't have a clue as to what the diff. between memory is so they just drop in the cheapest memory available, which is pc133 right now.

533mhz...mmmm...i've dreamed of this since video cards have been using high speed DDR mem..

 

[grant2]

Well ok i suppose you COULD put ddr on a p3 but i don't think you'll get any performance gain anyways?

at least with athlon you should get 4-10% or something?

 

[Mixxen]

Should be even better with the use of nVidia's memory technology thingy.