Advanced Micro Devices May Not Bring DDR2 Support In 2005

KingFishKingFish
edited January 2005 in Science & Tech
Leading chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices may not adopt DDR2 SDRAM this year, according to a report from a web-site. While some expected AMD to introduce microprocessors which memory controllers would support DDR2 in 2005, the firm is likely to put the introduction forward when, as the company says, it will make sense.
A news-story over at The Inquirer web-site claims Advanced Micro Devices’ microprocessors will not support DDR2 memory in 2005. The article also says AMD is unlikely to support DDR2 by its processors in PGA940 and PGA939 form-factors, in spite expectations, but DDR2 memory controller will be incorporated into central processing units from Advanced Micro Devices with 1207-pins coming out in 2007.

Advanced Micro Devices neither confirms, nor denies the possible movement in its plans.

“AMD has not given an official specific when we will have support for DDR2 with AMD64 processors. Our direction has been that when DDR2 makes sense for AMD and our customers, we’ll bring support to the market. There are many factors to be considered, such as cost, performance (frequency/latency), availability and other items that are all being balanced to determine how we will support DDR2,” a spokesperson for AMD told X-bit labs.
Source: X-Bit Labs

Comments

  • madmatmadmat
    edited January 2005
    Hey Thrax, when you read this remember what I said about DDR2 and socket 939? :thumbsup:
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