There are a couple of reports that recently emerged on the Internet, pointing to some serious issues with the memory ICs supplied by Elpida Memory to major DRAM vendors, such as Corsair, OCZ and Kingston. As it turns out, some of the company's high-end memory chips are failing and are the cause behind the issues reported by several users of memory modules from the likes of the three named above. The problem has now been confirmed by almost all of the aforementioned companies, which have also announced their support for those users who have been affected by it. The initial reports about Elpida's memory chips started a couple... [read more >>] Elpida Memory, a Japanese global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), announced today having managed to complete the development of a 50 nanometer process DDR3 SDRAM. According to the company, the new DRAM is characterized by a very low power consumption, but can reach 2.5Gbps ultra high speed and a 1.2V low voltage operation based on the industry's smallest chip size.The company has developed the 50nm process DDR3 SDRAM while using the 193nm (ArF) immersion lithography technology and copper interconnect technology. The size of the new chip is less than 40mm2. Moreover, the company says that the SDRAM can operate not only a... [read more >>] 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 ... [read more >>] The flash storage has been one of the technologies that have undoubtedly changed the face of consumer electronics appliances. It can store a large amount of data on a tiny surface, at the cost of only a few milliwatts. DRAM memory needs permanent refreshing to preserve its contents, but Flash storage can do without power for about ten years, and yet the data will still be there. However, Flash memory is handicapped by large access times. The ideal candidate for tomorrow's storage technology will act as fast as DRAM, while preserving the data for a long period of time, just like Flash memory.German scientists have announced that they ar... [read more >>] More and more research groups are walking on the optoelectronics pathway in search of faster, cheaper and more efficient chips. The transistor is already close to its end after it has been serving the IT cause for more than 60 years now, and needs a fast replacement to save the semiconductor industry from collapse.Optical computers are starting to become reality, as significant progress in manipulating light is made. IBM has taken it very seriously with their research on an optical processor, but the main problem is when it comes down to system memory. Light is however, a tenacious fighter and would rather not be enclosed in a chip, which... [read more >>] NEC has announced that it has succeeded in developing a new type of memory that preserves the SRAM compatibility. The new discovery has been named MRAM, which stands for Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory, and is alleged to run at a speed of 250 MHz, the fastest MRAM speed in the world. Apart from the fact that the MRAM is as fast as SRAM, one of the most important features of the new memory type is its non-volatility: the hardware is able to resume even if the computer power has been turned off. The unique memory type has been manufactured and designed exclusively by NEC. The company has adopted the 1 megabit capacity form factor. The d... [read more >>] Intel will soon release its DDR3-compatible Bearlake platform and some memory manufacturers already provide DDR3 memory modules. Sporting high prices and latencies, the DDR3 memories are yet to be improved, making DDR2-1066 modules a better solution for now as related to price/performance factors. Samsung, being the world leader in memory technology, is willing to push the DDR3 standards closer to mainstream with the announcement of 21 Intel-validated DDR3 solutions. "The successful system performance of Samsung's DDR3 memory chips and modules on Intel's desktop platform is a clear sign that DDR3 is well on its way to becoming a k... [read more >>] If it wasn't for marketing, you probably wouldn't buy all of the junk food from your local supermarket, you would drive a Toyota, instead of a Maseratti, and so on. But the marketing machines lead by marketing "geniuses" is what drives the world's moneymakers. In this line of ideas, OCZ Technology has introduced two new products in their memory line, which use their special heat-pipe cooling system HPC.Heat Pipe Conduit (HPC) heatspreader takes the excess heat from the memory modules and transmits it (via a heat-pipe) to a passive cooler made out of an array of fins. The modules are also dyed in black, using the color to give... [read more >>] | 
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