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RAM Starts Getting Expensive Again

If you were going to buy a memory product for Christmas, you might just want to do it now instead of waiting any longer, because their prices started to go back up. Hopefully it won't be a lightning fast process, not like what happened to HDDs when they doubled or tripled in price, but factories seem to be hav...

25 November 2011
11:12 GMT

Crucial Intros Ballistix Tactical and Ballistix Elite Memory Lines

In the third quarter of this year, Crucial plans to update its product portfolio with two new lines of DDR2 and DDR3 memory that address the needs of a broad range of users including enthusiasts, gamers and overclockers.The new product lines are called Ballistix Tactical and Ballistix Elite, and they both feature a ...

21 June 2011
10:16 GMT

Samsung Formally Touts DDR2 NAND Chips of 64 Gb

New memory chips are made quite often, and it looks like Samsung delivered on its status as semiconductor company by coming up with MLC NAND chips equipped with the DDR2 interface. Since solid state drives, smartphones, tablets and other Flash-using electronics could always do with more speeds, Samsung figured it...

12 May 2011
02:46 GMT

Elpida 30nm-Based 4Gb DDR2 Mobile RAM Unleashed

Elpida released a variety of memory products over the years and, naturally, is not about to stop any time soon, having now stepped forth to announce its newest mobile RAM chip.Whenever a chip maker manages to advance to a better manufacturing process, it will inevitably unveil new products. This goes for both DRAM a...

7 April 2011
06:07 GMT

30nm 4Gb Samsung DRAM for Tablets Officially Launched

It seems that no sort of pricing troubles are enough to deter Samsung from creating newer and better memory products, the latest of which is one based on the 30nm process and aimed at mobile applications.Basically, Samsung came up with a new DDR2 memory chip, a LPDDR2 chip of 4 Gb to be exact, which is actually almo...

3 December 2010
05:46 GMT

DRAM Prices to Keep Falling Until Second Quarter of 2011

Apparently, the downhill price trend for DRAM contract prices will continue even in spite of the mild PC sales rebound that September and October will yield, which means that memory will get cheaper and cheaper until sometime next year.As some may be aware, prices for DRAM, and semiconductors in general, have been o...

1 October 2010
09:24 GMT

DRAM Prices Falling Rapidly Because of Weak Demand

Due to weakening demand, DRAM products have begun to pile up in vendors' inventories and, thus, are expected to suffer from a very pronounced decline in average selling prices, a phenomenon which has already began to make its effects felt.Though the first and second quarters of the year proved to be, more or le...

11 September 2010
05:48 GMT

DRAM Memory Gets Even Cheaper in September

Even though the back-to-school season has kicked off, demand for PCs and hardware in general seems to still be rather weak, weak enough for makers of DRAM products to even further cut the contract prices on their chips.The supply of DRAM products is definitely not the issue currently plaguing this market segment if ...

10 September 2010
03:50 GMT

Elpida Trumpets Smallest 2Gb DDR2 Mobile RAM

Elpida unveils multiple DRAMs over the years but it has always been especially gleeful when it had the chance to boast about being the first in the industry to accomplish a certain feat. Somehow, the company managed one such feat just a short while ago, and issued an official announcement to commemorate the event. Wh...

28 July 2010
11:54 GMT

Micron Develops New Memory for Atom Tablets and Netbooks

Now that analysts are predicting a rapid growth for both netbooks and tablets, it makes sense that all IT players would want to take advantage of this potential for growth one way or another. Micron is one of those companies, and the means by which it plans to make its mark seems to have taken the form of a speciall...

27 July 2010
11:25 GMT

Toshiba and Samsung Enter NAND Development Partnership

Though NAND Flash memory is already known for the very high transfer speeds it can achieve, said speeds don't seem to be fast enough, at least not for a certain pair of memory makers. Toshiba and Samsung have apparently resolved to pool their resources and put together a faster DDR NAND Flash memory than the DDR...

22 July 2010
03:20 GMT

Kingston Provides Entry-Level HyperX 'blu' Memory Kits

Hardcore enthusiasts will always do whatever it takes in order to get their hands on the latest and fastest CPUs, memory product and graphics cards, but there are many more end-users who have similar goals but lack the financial means to achieve them. Fortunately, hardware makers are always mindful of this market seg...

26 May 2010
05:24 GMT

Korean DRAM Makers Bundling DDR2 with DDR3

As it often happens when a next-generation technology emerges, the previous generation of products gradually drops in popularity, until producers of said technology are faced with low demands unable to keep up with the growth in inventories. Currently, such a situation is plaguing Korean DRAM makers, which are having...

19 January 2010
09:20 GMT

Hynix Launches 2Gb DDR2 DRAM for Mobile Applications

Hynix has been the first to introduce not one, but several types of DDR chips, with two of the more recent ones being last year's 54nm manufacturing process-based 1Gb DDR2 chip and the world's first 40nm-based 2Gb GDDR5 chip. Eager to introduce yet another in the 'world's first' series, Hynix...

13 January 2010
09:51 GMT

x32-Bit I/O 2-Gigabit DDR2 from Elpida Assists 32-Bit CPUs

The demand for better and faster memory has been on the rise along with the popularity growth of digital equipment (digital TV, cameras and others). This propelled memory developers to always improve the speeds and capacities of memory modules in general. Still, among those in need of better RAM are also end-users wh...

26 November 2009
03:41 GMT

Industry's First 2-Gigabit DDR2 Mobile RAM Arrives

Over the last few years, portable computing devices have become more popular, with notebook sales surpassing that of fully fledged desktops, while the new netbook category catching the customers' interest faster than any other product. With that in mind, the industry is moving towards the adoption of new solutio...

28 September 2009
03:49 GMT

Lexar Announces TAA-Compliant Crucial Series of Memory Modules

Lexar Media, one of the world's leading providers of memory products for the digital media, has just announced a full line of memory products, part of its Crucial series, which meet the requirements of the Trade Agreements Act (TAA) of 1979. According to the company, the already available line of solutions inclu...

1 July 2009
10:08 GMT

Hynix Intros World's First 54nm 1GB DDR2 DRAM

Seoul, Korea-based Hynix Semiconductor, a leading provider of flash-based memory products, has recently announced that it has successfully developed the world's first mobile 1GB DDR2 DRAM that takes advantage of the company's new 54nm process technology. The newly announced solution will provide customers w...

27 April 2009
03:41 GMT

MSI Enables DDR2 and DDR3 Support on the Same Motherboard

MSI managed to gather an impressive crowd at its booth during the CeBIT 2009 show in Hanover, Germany. The Taiwanese company brought a number of new products, including the highly-anticipated X-Slim series of portable computer systems, designed on Intel's ULV platform and meant to provide users with a PC alterna...

9 March 2009
09:11 GMT

Toshiba Announces Prototype of New FeRAM

Toshiba has announced today the prototype of a new Random Access Memory, dubbed Ferroelectric Random Access Memory, or FeRAM. According to the details provided by the company, its new memory chip is capable of providing a storage capacity of 128-megabits and read and write speeds of 1.6-gigabytes per second, conseque...

9 February 2009
10:54 GMT

Samsung Touts First Validated 40nm DRAM

Samsung, a global leader in advanced memory technology, has recently announced that it has developed and validated the first DRAM chip and module, developed using a 40nm process technology. With the announcement, Samsung has also said that the new 1GB DDR2 module and its corresponding 1GB 800Mbps DDR2 SODIMM have bot...

4 February 2009
04:01 GMT

DRAM Prices Jump Amid Makers' Shipment Control

It seems that DRAM prices are finally starting to be pulled up a little, announce Taiwan DRAM makers. As many of you know already, the DRAM market has been moving downward during the recent few months, while most of the major players in the area posted dramatically lowered revenues or high losses. The new turn of eve...

19 December 2008
06:58 GMT

A-DATA Launches XPG Gaming Series Memory Kits

A-DATA Technology Co. Ltd., a worldwide leading provider of high performance memory products, has recently announced the introduction of its entire XPG Gaming Series memory modules. The new gaming memory kits have been designed for high reliability and extra stability, and they pack A-DATA’s cutting edge techno...

16 December 2008
04:53 GMT

Walton Chaintech Intros Apogee Elite DDR2 FB-DIMM Memory Modules

As recent developments clearly show, almost every memory manufacturer out there is getting ready for the new wave of DDR3-supporting computer systems, which, naturally, only goes to explain the high number of DDR3 memory modules being released on the market. However, DDR2-enabled systems still constitute the majority...

23 September 2008
03:17 GMT

Patriot Extends Viper Series with New 4GB DDR2 Memory Kits

Patriot Memory, a global provider of memory modules and flash memory solutions, has recently announced two new 4GB DDR2 memory kits designed for computer enthusiasts. After introducing its latest DDR3 memory modules for high-end desktop systems, the company has decided to extend its Viper series of products, with th...

8 September 2008
06:11 GMT

OCZ Goes Over the Top with 16GB of DDR2

Just when you thought that your 4GB of desktop system memory was just the thing to knock the socks off any computer enthusiast out there, OCZ intros its latest P45 Special 8GB and 16GB memory kits. That's enough to make any 32-bit operating system user want to upgrade to a 64-bit OS. In fact, that's just wh...

7 August 2008
10:12 GMT

Thermaltake Unveils Odd-Looking Memory Cooler

Thermaltake is known for offering some of the best (and sometimes downright weird) cooling products for your computer hardware components. Today, the company announced a new solution meant to provide your high-end DDR and DDR2 memory with the cooling factor required for intensive performance.The new product is dubbed...

1 August 2008
11:02 GMT

OCZ's Fatal1ty-Branded Memory Kits Launched

Most computer enthusiasts have undoubtedly heard of the Fatal1ty-branded computer hardware products, since they are mostly advertised as being exactly what a high-end gamer needs in order to become the best of the best. Well, it looks like the Fatal1ty family has just received a new addition, this time around OCZ bei...

22 July 2008
04:16 GMT

OCZ's Fatal1ty Edition Memory Kits Now Avaialble

Some of the attendants at this year's Computex trade show in Taipei have been able to identify a new product over at OCZ's booth, of whose existence no one had been aware until that moment. The product in question was actually a Johnathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel-branded memory module, and users will be ...

19 June 2008
10:15 GMT

The World's First DDR2 SDRAM with x32-bit I/O Configuration

Elpida, the company which was formally known as NEC Hitachi Memory, Inc. is not that big of a name on the consumer memory market. With all that, despite not being the biggest name in the industry, the company has registered a few considerable achievements over the past years. The latest, which was announced on May 15...

19 May 2008
09:02 GMT

Mushkin Introduces Ascent XP DDR Lineup with Vapor Chamber Cooling

Memory specialist Mushkin has just announced its latest memory offerings in the DDR2 and DDR3 families of products. The new memory modules are branded as Ascent XP and have been developed in collaboration with Celsia Technologies. The XP memory line-up is comprised of stand-alone modules and dual-channel kits. Accord...

8 May 2008
08:48 GMT

Micron Digs For Faster DDR2, DDR3 Aspen Memory

Micron has started shipping units of its energy-efficient Aspen series of DDR2 and DDR3 memory modules. According to the company, memory draws up to 15 percent of the total energy absorbed by modern servers, and the figures are expected to increase as more and more memory is required for server normal operation.The n...

16 April 2008
11:24 GMT

OCZ Announces Heatpipe-Enabled 4GB DDR2-1066 Reaper Memory Kit

Memory and cooling expert OCZ has just introduced the newest OCZ PC2-8500 Reaper HPC 4GB, one the fastest high density kits in the world. The company tries to mix the need for more and more memory with its ability to overclock at higher frequencies. The new PC2-8500 4GB Reaper HPC series comes with an innovative cool...

8 February 2008
05:35 GMT

G.Skill to Announce 4GB DDR2 Kit on Eight-Layer PCBs

A Taiwanese ancient proverb has it that RAM memory is never enough and we would gladly approve with it, if memory manufacturer G.Skill hadn't gone ahead of us. You may wonder why this launch is so important, since there are plenty of vendors to sell 8GB DDR2 kits (and DDR2 memory is getting obsolete). Well, here...

30 January 2008
10:30 GMT

DDR2 Prices Go Up, DDR3 Goes Mainstream

The DDR2 memory industry has been struggling on the bottom of the pit for more than one year due to the market being oversaturated. Many memory producers had to take drastic measures to keep themselves alive, including selling their production under the manufacturing costs or temporarily shutting down their business ...

25 January 2008
03:12 GMT

Memory Manufacturers Gear Up for Increased DDR3 Demand

Memory industry is undergoing a process of change, triggered by the advent of the third generation of double-data rate memory modules (DDR3). As this type of memory is becoming cheaper and cheaper, it gets widely adopted in substantially more PCs worldwide. Many companies are focusing on developing 1GB cards using DD...

23 January 2008
03:56 GMT

OCZ to Introduce the PC2-8000 Platinum Edition 4GB Dual Channel Kit

Cooling and memory solution expert OCZ Technologies announced the immediate availability of the PC2-8000 Platinum Edition 4GB dual channel kit, targeted at those users whose motherboards only provide two DIMM slots. The dual channel kit allows the users to enjoy increased computing performance at an extremely afford...

19 January 2008
06:22 GMT

Micron Goes Small on DDR2 Memory Chips

Micron Technologies have announced that they have begun shipping world's smallest DDR2 memory chip. The new one-gigabyte DDR2 chip is built on 68-nanometer technology and features a die coating of only 56 mm. This achievement was possible due to Micron's previous technology, called 6F2. Another key point o...

13 December 2007
02:57 GMT

Kingston Technology Delivers Phenom-Ready DDR2 1066MHz Memory

Immediately following the Spider platform official release, Kingston Technologies has announced the availability of their 1066MHz ValueRAM cards. The memory manufacturer has worked tightly with the AMD team to achieve top performance memory modules.Computer memory is the only hardware component highly likely to creat...

20 November 2007
04:33 GMT

ASUS P5K-E/WiFi-AP - Up to 75% More Memory Speed

Asus P5K-E is a mainstream motherboard that features all the requirements for an updated desktop PC. Dedicated to the Socket 775 processor line, the motherboard is built around Intel's P35 chipset and respects the same PCB layout as the top mobos in its family (Asus P5K3 Deluxe and Asus P5K-C). The board's ...

19 November 2007
10:46 GMT

Qimonda Squeezes Volts for 800 Mhz Supercomputing

The memory producer Quimonda have announced their partnership with Supermicro in developing memory modules with decreased supply voltage. The company has already scored a great success in reducing the power consumption from the regular 1.8 volts to the 1.5 volts value. Based on their research, a 16 percent of memory ...

19 November 2007
07:42 GMT

OCZ Releases Another Reaper

OCZ Technology Group announced the launch of another high-end random access memory solution from its Reaper HPC (Heat Pipe Conduit) range of products that comes with a unique design coupled with very low latency timings and generous capacity. The 4GB PC2-6400 Reaper CL4 series from OCZ is aimed at providing '�...

15 October 2007
05:02 GMT

Intel Likes XMP 2.0Ghz Running Memories

Random access memory modules are currently operating at pretty high frequencies and in some cases, they reach even the 1.8Ghz mark. DDR3 compliant memory modules are the fastest ones around right now but the biggest central processing manufacturing company in the world, Intel, is not content with the current speeds a...

10 October 2007
09:50 GMT

OCZ Announces the Ultimate DDR2 Kits for Nvidia Mainboards

OCZ Technology Group recently announced the launch of yet another high end DDR2 random access memory kit that is aimed at the extreme gamers and computer enthusiast market segments as it offers the ultimate gaming performance along with high overall system responsiveness. This new memory kit is the latest addition to...

10 October 2007
05:40 GMT

Transcend Launched a Registered Memory Kit For Servers

Transcend just announced the launch of a new memory module aimed at use in blade and traditional server systems that comes with a nominal capacity of 2GB and it is packed in a very low profile in order to save space in the crammed server cases. Measuring just 18.28mm in height the Transcend 2GB DDR2-667Mhz VLP ECC R...

4 October 2007
06:25 GMT

One More DDR2 Memory Kit

It may very well be that the DDR2 random access memory is the most successful computer memory ever developed and produced at least when considering the huge number of systems that are based around it or the equally huge number of models that are now on the general market and available for purchase. As the number of c...

3 October 2007
12:07 GMT

G.Skill Releases a 4GB DDR2 Memory Kit

G.Skill International Enterprise announced the launch of a new high performance DDR2 memory kit that is aimed at gamers and computer power users as it combines low timings with high capacity, while also providing excellent running frequencies. As the new operating systems and software applications are needing more an...

1 October 2007
04:04 GMT

High Performance Memory Modules from takeMS

takeMS just announced the launch of a new high performance DDR2 memory module from the Mach2 series of products, which are all certified to operate in a stable manner at the 1066MHz frequency and very low latencies. These new memory products are Nvidia certified to work with all Nvidia powered mainboards in the frame...

26 September 2007
11:09 GMT

Transcend Axes The DDR2

Transcend announced the launch of a new line of DDR2 memory kits which are part of the company's high performance line of products and which are aimed at gamers and other personal computer enthusiasts. Just like all previous iterations of this memory line of products, the DDR2-1066 aXeRam Overclocking Memory Dua...

21 September 2007
12:35 GMT

DRAM Price Tags Going Lower and Lower

Random access memory manufacturing industry is going through another crisis as the market is simply overflowing with DRAM memory modules and suppliers and retail channel dealers are forced to severely cut all price tags in order to attract more customers. But problems do not stop here as several market analysts predi...

20 September 2007
09:20 GMT


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