Samsung Claims DDR3 First

KingFish

Samsung has claimed a memory world first - the first DDR3 chip.

Still a prototype, the memory chip runs four times as fast as those used in current PCs, the company proudly stated. It should lead to better performance in future notebooks, desktops and servers.

DDR3 (double data rate 3) DRAM can process data at up to 1.06Gbit/s and has a capacity of 512MB. Samsung will begin mass producing chips with speeds of 800Mbit/s to 1.06Gbit/s in early 2006, said a company spokeswoman.

DRAM is the main memory type used in PCs and servers. The faster the memory, the more smoothly the computers tend to work.

The main type of DRAM found in most PCs today is DDR SDRAM, which processes data at between 266Mbit/s and 400Mbit/s, depending on the parts. A faster type of DDR called DDR2 has speeds of 400Mbit/s to 667Mbit/s and entered the market late last year, gaining popularity this year, especially among notebook PC vendors.

Source: TechWorld

a2jfreak

So they kill off TCCD (it was TCCD, right?) to help spur adoption of DDR2 and then a week or two later reveal that DDR3 will go into production in aprroximately one year? What are they going to do in a year, kill their TCCD equivalent for DDR2 to spur adoption of DDR3?

Oh well, whatever. Bring on the fast memory!!!!

mmonnin

Twas TCCD.

RADA

Faster! must go faster!