Texus Instruments...RAM?

[JoPalm]

I installed a stick of Micron ram that I bought from a store yesterday and today I looked in one of the sisoft benchmarking tables and it said that that stick was a Texus Instruments one...?! someone explain this

I remember one thread where they were talking about Micron making the chipset and DIMM's being made by someone else..is that what's happening here?

Thx

 

[Spook]

TI, Texas Instruments, makes many different IC circuitry... So, it is quite possible that you have Micron Ram on a TI PCB... Look at the Ram, if it has an 'Mt' on the chip, then they are Micron Chips...

 

[JoPalm]

Yea they do have "MT" on each chip. So why then does it show as IT? Is it because of the TI PCB?

 

[~zonker~]

Micron bought TI's DRAM manufacturing business a while back. It may be that the DRAM's you have were manufactured at what was a TI plant, labeled Micron.

I don't know how the diagnostic determines the manufactutrer type, but TI and Micron are now one as far as DRAM is concerned.

 

[larrymoencurly]

CTSPD said the same about my 2-year-old Micron PC100, maybe because Micron bought TI's memory business.

 

[John]

I had a 128MB stick of Micron -8e w/ TI PCB a while back. It ran 125MHz 🙂

 

[MrCraphead]

DAMN MICRON. My dad was working for TI's DRAM project and when Micron bought them out, they layed off a whole bunch of employees, including my dad. I understand this may have been necessary, but damn them anyway. :|

 

[ruckb]

Hi,

the only way I see for a diagnostic tool to figure out the manufacterer of a DIMM is the SPD EEPROM. THere is a code for the manufacterer included.
But i don't know why Micron should write TI in the EEPROM. Maybe for logistic reasons ??

ruckb

 

[JoPalm]

I was using SiSofts benchmarking tool and it showed my 1st Dimm slot as Siemens (which it is) and the second slot as TI (which is a stick of micron).