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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 mm². 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

No More FB-DIMMs for Us, Says Intel

Intel's server intended central processing unit, the Xeon family of products, were designed from the start to work best with a special random access memory standard named FB-DIMM that offers high level of computing performance in shared bus architectures, like the one which is currently used by Intel. The downsi...

20 September 2007
08:29 GMT

Samsung Upgrades DDR2 Production Lines

Samsung Electronics announced today that it successfully completed the development of the first 2Gb DDR2 random access memory chips that will be built using the more advanced 60 nanometer fabrication process and that the mass production is scheduled to start at the end of the year. The random access memory manufactur...

12 September 2007
04:16 GMT

New Integrated Circuit Packaging Solution

Altera Corporation announced today the launch of the first shipment of EP3SL150 products, which are the first of the new high end Stratix III FPGA family that are built using the 65nm fabrication process. The new product is composed of around 150,000 logic elements and it has the lowest power consumption of all the e...

28 August 2007
09:56 GMT

OCZ Extends Its DDR2 Lineup

While DDR3 memory modules are just starting to gain a foothold on the computer memory market, the older but still popular DDR2 standard gets a new high performance addition for the well-known high end computer hardware manufacturer OCZ. The company just announced the launch of a new Reaper memory modules series based...

25 August 2007
04:43 GMT

Beware of Memory Prices

For a while now computer memory prices are going up, one little step at a time, after a long period of free falling that created numerous financial problems among most manufacturers. Now, DRAM and NAND prices are expected to rise through the rest of August, even more so after the power outage that hit the Korean prod...

9 August 2007
08:14 GMT

The DDR2 with Super Cooling

OCZ Technology announced the launch of a new DDR2 memory module that features a hybrid cooling solution and according to the manufacturing company it is simply the "fastest" and "the most ground-breaking" "memory product existing today". This new memory module is really fast for the DDR2 memory standard, running at a...

7 August 2007
10:02 GMT

OCZ's Extreme Memory Kits

OCZ announced the release of a new "ultra-high performance and high reliability memory" specially designed for AMD platform's power users that comes in the form of an 8GB "Quad Kits". Designed only for the AMD AM2 platform the new kits come as a PC2-5400 DDR2 memory and are "custom-tailored to the extended colum...

31 July 2007
02:22 GMT

XDR Memories Anyone?

Rambus is a quite small company that is developing different types of technologies and then sells or licenses them to different computer hardware producers like Intel, AMD and so on. Rambus became known a few years back, in the golden days of the Intel Pentium 4s and the AMD's Athlon XP series. Back then, there ...

26 July 2007
06:25 GMT

High Performance Notebook Memory

Walton Chaintech announced the release of its latest APOGEE DDR2 667/800MHz 2GB SO-DIMM aimed for use in high-end notebook or laptop computer systems. As operating systems and general purpose applications demand more and more from the hardware layer, and especially from the CPU and memory subsystems, the APOGEE memor...

24 July 2007
10:30 GMT

ProMOS Spends More

ProMOS Technologies is a Taiwanese memory chip maker that started building a new memory production factory right in the middle of the worst case of DRAM price depreciation ever. The theory behind ProMOS Technologies' bold move was that once prices start to rise again, other producers would have little or no memo...

19 July 2007
10:53 GMT

To DDR3 or Not?

DDR memory is ... how many years old? Well, I'm not really sure, but I'm willing to bet that it is at least 6 years old. DDR2 on the other hand is quite a new face in memory town; besides, there are still plenty of computer users who simply will not jump in the newer DDR2 boat because that would mean at the...

18 July 2007
11:23 GMT

OCZ Releases A New High-End Memory Kit

OCZ Technology Group announced that it will release a new memory kit based on the DDR2 technology with a capacity of 4GB. The kits will be named "PC2-6400 Platinum" and "PC2-6400 Gold" and are targeted at users who need high speeds and capacities for gaming or Vista-running desktop PCs. The Gold and Platinum kits com...

11 July 2007
10:42 GMT

Big Memory Kits for Laptops

OCZ just launched its brand-new memory kit designed for laptops, but this kit is unlike the previous ones, it is bigger and faster too, being aimed at the computer enthusiast running Microsoft Windows Vista on his laptop. Built around the DDR2 technology, this memory kit has an optimal frequency of 800MHz (also known...

10 July 2007
06:16 GMT

First AM2-exclusive Memory Modules from OCZ

While Intel has been playing with DDR2 memory modules for three years by now, AMD's AM2 platform, which was launched only for its additional DDR2 implementation, is just one year old. And AMD already plans the AM3 platform for 2008, but we won't be getting into this now. Anyway, the AM2 platform does not g...

9 May 2007
06:51 GMT


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