14 DAY TRIAL // Even in the midst of rapidly falling prices of DDR3 memory, it seems that makers of such products are still sticking to their production and node transition schedules, and Elpida has now started to ship its newest chips.
There have been many announcements in which a certain piece of hardware was as being described as the industry's and/or the world's most noteworthy based on a certain criteria.
Elpida's newest memory chips are described much in this way, specifically as the world's smallest 2 Gb DDR3 that supports an x16-bit I/O interface.
Of course, this means that the new DRAM also has support for x8-bit interfaces.
It is compliant with the DDR3-Plus standard and was developed with consumer electronics in mind, not necessarily personal computers but more specialized devices.
According to the official announcement, Elpida is aiming for Blu-ray players, set top boxes, tablet PCs and other consumer electronics.
For those interested in numbers, the memory has a clock frequency of 1,600 MHz, though it can operate on 1.35V, not just 1.5V.
Of course, when on lower voltage, the operating clock speed is limited to 1,333 MHz.
“The new 2-gigabit DDR3 SDRAM is well suited to consumer electrical appliances,” states the press release.
“It meets the high-speed DDR3-1600 (1600Mbps) standard likely to become the mainstream memory speed standard in 2011, uses energy-efficient 1.35V for the DDR3L-1333 memory speed and is compliant with DDR3-Plus (seamless BL4 access) for upgrading the performance of consumer electrical appliances,” the announcement added.
“Compared with Elpida's existing x16-bit I/O products for use in consumer electrical appliances the new SDRAM uses 30% less current and its low 1.35V operating voltage increases its attractiveness as an eco-friendly DRAM.”
Mass production is expected to commence in the first quarter of 2011, which means that the EDJ2116DEBG and EDJ2108DEBG 2 Gb DDR3 SDRAM should show up in devices soon enough.