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DDR3 price premium over DDR2 to shrink to 10% in 2H

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:21:22 +0000

Amid Intel's aggressive push to supporting DDR3-powered platform, DRAM makers are working with the processor giant to advance their volume production schedules in the hope that the joint effort will result in a less than... Read more...

Samsung introduces 60nm-class processing for 2Gb DDR2

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:58:57 +0000

Samsung Electronics has announced that it has developed what it claims is the industry's first 60nm-class 2Gb DDR2 and will begin mass producing it later this year. Compared with 80nm 2Gb DDR2, the 60nm-class with... Read more...

Samsung Mass Producing 1Gb DDR2 DRAM at 60nm

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 08:47:53 +0000

Samsung Electronics has announced that it has begun mass producing the industry's first 1Gigabit DDR2 DRAM using 60 nanometer process technology. In its press release, Samsung estimates efficiency gains of the 60nm process are 40%... Read more...

OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 ATI CrossFire review

Julio Franco — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:54:33 +0000

There is talk that DDR2 memory is nearing the end of its life, and while this could be true to a certain extent, I believe it to be more of the opposite. While DDR3 is... Read more...

OCZ DDR2 PC2-9200 FlexXLC Edition review

Julio Franco — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:48:33 +0000

Now that both AMD and Intel have selected DDR2 as the primary memory technology across their desktop range, everything has become much more standardized. That said, purchasing DDR2 memory is not so straightforward, as there... Read more...

2GB DDR2 modules may not be mainstream until 2008

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:56:51 +0000

While 1Gbit DDR2 chips are still available in very limited quantities in the open market, 2GB DDR2 desktop modules may not go mainstream until 2008, according to industry sources. Memory module houses currently put more... Read more...

DDR2 is overstretched beyond its Gigahertz limits?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:35:09 +0000

THE ORIGINAL DDR memory was specified at 266MHz throughput and ended up at 400MHz officialy, with vendors like OCZ or Corsair going up to 600MHz in selected parts. Now, the DDR2 official spec is frozen... Read more...

Buffalo Touts 1200MHz, 1250MHz DDR2 Memory Modules

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:19:31 +0000

Buffalo Technology, a well-known supplier of memory modules from Austin, Texas, is expected to unveil memory modules at 1200MHz and 1250MHz in the near future, according to reports from Japan. The company already sells 1150MHz... Read more...

Crucial DDR2 PC2-5300 10th Anniversary review

Julio Franco — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:06:02 +0000

Memory manufacturer Crucial is celebrating its 10th anniversary afterbeing founded in 1996 as a direct memory reseller for its parentcompany, Micron Technology. That same year id Software unleashed thefirst version of Quake, which began the... Read more...

DDR2 Finally Crowned DRAM King

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:47:34 +0000

After a much longer than expected delay, DDR2 (double data rate, second generation) has finally taken over as the most popular memory chip used in PCs. The crossover to DDR2 from the previous mainstream chip,... Read more...

Socket AM2 let down by DDR2

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:03:53 +0000

DDR 2 MEMORY currently works at faster clocks than DDR1, but it still has some latency hang-ups. 800MHz DDR 2 may work at CL4 ms, but faster implementations of DDR1 can work at CL 2ms... Read more...

DDR2 Prices Soar This Month

Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:42:07 +0000

According to DRAMeXchange, a research company which tracks prices of DRAM modules and flash memory, increases in contract rates from major RAM manufacturers have sent up DDR2 prices 18 percent from the second half of... Read more...

DDR2 Demand Expected to Increase

Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:06:42 +0000

Demand for DDR2 memory is expected to dramatically increase in the first quarter of 2006 thanks in part to AMD's forthcoming M2 socket processors and Intel's mainstream 945 chipset. AMD's M2 socket processors... Read more...

DDR2 sales raise to 20% of the DRAM market by end of '05?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:51:57 +0000

Kingmax Semiconductor, ranked as the world's eighth-largest third-party DRAM-module supplier by iSuppli for the last two years, is hoping to increase the proportion of DDR2 products in its unit shipments to, at least, 20% by... Read more...

DDR2 prices drop as inventory swells

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:16:09 +0000

Prices for DDR2 chips have recently fallen to US$5.50 per chip from US$6.50-7.00 a month ago due to excess inventory, according to sources. DRAM chipmakers are currently holding five to six weeks worth of DDR2... Read more...

Corsair Memory Shrinks DDR2 Latencies

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 11:17:56 +0000

Corsair Memory, a leading designer and maker of advanced memory modules, said Wednesday it had developed DDR2 memory products with the world's most aggressive latency settings of CL3 3-3-8. Corsair's XMS2 Series 4300C memory modules... Read more...

Samsung Shows Off 2Gb DDR2 DRAMs

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:13:33 +0000

Samsung Electronics announced the industry's first 2Gb DDR2 SDRAM utilizing 80nm process technology. The high density DDR2 solution will enhance server and workstation performance and enable faster deployment of memory intensive applications like real time... Read more...

DDR2 Takes Memory to the Next Level

Tue, 02 Mar 2004 08:03:31 +0000

With so much emphasis placed on processors, memory chips often get overlooked as an integral component of system performance. DRAM (dynamic RAM) vendors will start the transition to a new memory architecture this year that... Read more...

Samsung announces three new DDR2 products

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 10:31:24 +0000

Samsung Electronics announced it will add 1Gbit DDR2 chips, 2GB (512MbitÃ—32) DDR2 registered-DIMM and 1GB (512MbitÃ—16) DDR2 unbuffered-DIMM to its product lines, according to a company press statement on January 28. With the new products,... Read more...

Mobo makers: DDR2 not mainstream this year unless price fall

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:23:13 +0000

Intel's upbeat projection for Prescott processors and subsequent boost in demand for DDR2 memory got a cold shoulder from several local motherboard makers, as they remain conservative about the actual adoption rate of DDR2 memory... Read more...

DRAM companies speed up investment to meet DDR2 demand

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:37:46 +0000

Realizing the increasingly important role to be played by DDR2 memory, DRAM makers plan to quicken the pace of capital investment for production of the new generation of double data rate chips. Mainly driven by... Read more...

PSC to start 512Mbit DDR2 pilot runs in 2Q 2004

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 05 Sep 2003 09:51:52 +0000

Taiwan based Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) is set to start pilot runs of 512Mbit DDR2 production in the second quarter of 2004, with technology support from Japan-based Elpida Memory, according to sources. The DDR2 production... Read more...

DDR2 SDRAM - Delayed!

Mon, 03 Feb 2003 09:39:31 +0000

:( Seems like DDR2 has been delayed by a year! Mass production of DDR2 SDRAM for computers will develop in 2005, a year later than originally forecast, according to analysts and chipmakers... Read more...