16GB Memory Modules Coming from Samsung

[Ci7]

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, has recently announced having started the sampling of 50nm DDR3 memory modules. According to the company, this new advance will allow it to fabricate more power efficient memory modules, enabling it at the same time to produce devices with capacities of up to 16GB.

According to Samsung, the new 50nm samples are DDR3 modules featuring 2Gb capacity. The devices have been said to offer two times the density of the current 1Gb chips while also delivering 40 percent power efficiency over their predecessors. The company announced at the same time that the manufacturing of the 2Gb modules allows it to mark a 60 percent productivity gain.

“We have focused on maximizing density alternatives and power savings to make our 2Gb DDR3 solution as flexible as possible for designers,” said Jim Elliott, Vice President, Memory, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. The 2Gb module is up to 1.6 times faster than an 800Mbps 1Gb-based dual-die package and also reduces heat emissions due to the smaller number of DDR3 chips.

The new form factor allows leveraged configurations, said the company. This way, registered in-line memory modules (RIMMs) can be configured with capacities of up to 8GB, while small outline dual in-line memory modules (SODIMMs), which are mainly designed for notebook usage, can rise to 4GB configurations. Desktop and server applications can gain even more capacity through the use of dual-die packages, which enables their densities to be leveraged to 16GB.

The new 2Gb devices are able to support data rates of up to 1.3 Gb/s at 1.5 or 1.35 volts, announced Samsung. The company stated that the mass production of the new 2Gb chips is planned to start by the end of this year, and also said that the 2Gb DDR3 should become its primary DRAM process technology in 2009. It is worth noticing that Samsung brought innovations to the industry starting with the introduction of the 150nm-class DRAM technology in 2000 and going to the mass volume production of 1Gb DDR2 under the 50nm-class process technology last April.

Samsung's announcement sounds more than attractive to enthusiasts, yet there are little chances for the mainstream computers to have the new 8GB or 16GB memory modules as an affordable option. Currently, 8 GB DDR3 devices are not too popular, and, at the same time, the similar DDR2 modules have prices well over $1,000.

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[The_Decryptor Veteran]

mmm, 32GB in dual channel.

Or spend that little bit extra and get 4 sticks.

[darren89]

hmm........fascinating...its always samsung which develops the highest technology first...

haha....however let's see about the quality also. :D

[Hidr0]

Now all we need is windows 8 x32 to handle that amount of ram

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

So the DDR2 modules are going to cost over $1000. Haha, I wonder how much the DDR3 sticks are going to cost.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Now all we need is windows 8 x32 to handle that amount of ram

Windows (not counting servers) already supports 128GB of RAM, you'd need 8 of these sticks to hit that limit.

[jingarelho]

x32 was supose to suport only up to 3gb?

[Elliot B.]

x32 was supose to suport only up to 3gb?

It's a limitation of 32-bit, not of Windows.

[jingarelho]

i was no saying that was a windows problem... i was asking if it was a x32 limitation... so the 32GB Ram would do no use in most of the installed system since they are x32bit.

[Rudy]

i was no saying that was a windows problem... i was asking if it was a x32 limitation... so the 32GB Ram would do no use in most of the installed system since they are x32bit.

well it would give them about 3GB of memory ;)

[White Cuban]

x32 is fading away, and the Trend is going higher, was quite slow with XP, and got faster with vista, i think and hope Win 7 Will flip the bowl over with over 50% 64bit, this will help support. and everyone and let the tech advance

[Jason S. Global Moderator]

anyone know where one could buy those 8GB DDR2 modules? just curious... not like anyone could afford them or actually use them in their system :p

[CelticWhisper]

It's "32-bit x86," not "x32." By that token, it's also "x86_64," "amd64," "EM64T" or "IA64," or numerous others (PPC, SPARC), but not "x64." There was never an architecture called "x64," it's pure marketroid BS.

[Elliot B.]

It's "32-bit x86," not "x32." By that token, it's also "x86_64," "amd64," "EM64T" or "IA64," or numerous others (PPC, SPARC), but not "x64." There was never an architecture called "x64," it's pure marketroid BS.

Interesting :)

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

It's "32-bit x86," not "x32." By that token, it's also "x86_64," "amd64," "EM64T" or "IA64," or numerous others (PPC, SPARC), but not "x64." There was never an architecture called "x64," it's pure marketroid BS.

Windows Vista / XP X64

You had better tell the rest of the Net this. It is used as such everywhere.

[Angel Blue01]

Now the prices of motherboards that support DDR3 RAM need to come down.

Go 64-bit OSes! :D

[Robbie Khan Reviews]

Meh even my 8GB ram is not utilised beyond 30% under Vista64 after several days photo editing, gaming, video encoding etc :p upside is I can leave those apps minimised all day long and not worry whilst gaming!

[DigitalE]

Meh even my 8GB ram is not utilised beyond 30% under Vista64 after several days photo editing, gaming, video encoding etc :p upside is I can leave those apps minimised all day long and not worry whilst gaming!

Supercomputers need lots of RAM, though :whistle:

[Lasker]

Meh even my 8GB ram is not utilised beyond 30% under Vista64 after several days photo editing, gaming, video encoding etc :p upside is I can leave those apps minimised all day long and not worry whilst gaming!

wow that's really cool, with that amount of memory you can basically put the most demanding 3D application and run at the same time in the background Crysis and you don't have to worry about it, Unless that you have a crappy Core duo 2 processor.

[goji]

Meh even my 8GB ram is not utilised beyond 30% under Vista64 after several days photo editing, gaming, video encoding etc :p upside is I can leave those apps minimised all day long and not worry whilst gaming!

Now thats what I want to hear. In the Hi-Fi world we would call the extra excessive amounts of ram "head room" :p

[zape]

It's "32-bit x86," not "x32." By that token, it's also "x86_64," "amd64," "EM64T" or "IA64," or numerous others (PPC, SPARC), but not "x64." There was never an architecture called "x64," it's pure marketroid BS.

The official term/spec is "x86-64" (a 64-bit superset of the x86 instruction set architecture). The rest are just vender specific addons to the original spec.

The 64-bit only version is officially called now the Intel Itanium architecture.

[CelticWhisper]

You had better tell the rest of the Net this. It is used as such everywhere.

I'd be glad to, because the rest of the Net is wrong. But I think a better person or group of people to tell them would be the engineers at Intel and AMD who actually built the chips and called them many various things, none of which was "x64." "x64" was, as I said, created by idiot marketers possessed of insufficient neurons to grasp the concept that these architectures all had/have their own distinctive characteristics and decided to lump them together under the made-up term "x64."

If they had called it "*64" or "*64*" that might be a little more acceptable, as "*" is accepted in the technology world as a wildcard character, but "x64" just sounds flat-out stupid. And, again, actually happens to be flat-out factually incorrect.

[Kronir]

Mmmmmmm...super RAM! :D For the time being, its overkill...but its still nice to see it coming out! :)

Edit: 100th post! Whoohoo! :woot:

[Ci7]

Mmmmmmm...super RAM! :D For the time being, its overkill...but its still nice to see it coming out! :)

Edit: 100th post! Whoohoo! :woot:

i doubt it even intended for HD computers , not even next gen ultra high ended skull trail rig :p

servers need rams like this , very useful in this case :D

[Hidr0]

Windows (not counting servers) already supports 128GB of RAM, you'd need 8 of these sticks to hit that limit.

did you read that tiny "X32" after the words: "Windows 8"?....

X32 = as 32-bit X86