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Enpirion has announced the completion of the EV1320 VTT 2 Amp source/sink DDR termination converter, which accepts input voltage of 0.95 to 1.8V.
This new converter measures 3 x 3 x 0.55 mm and can make do with a printed circuit board area of just 80 square mm.
Enpirion also made it possible to operate more than o... |
14 February 2012
09:25 GMT |
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There is a new line of single-level cell NAND Flash memory chips running about, one that Macronix International has just officially announced.
The first-generation MX30LF Single-Level Cell (SLC) NAND Flash family, built with a 75 nm floating gate technology, has been formally revealed and is made up of two members,... |
10 February 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Micron has many sorts of memory up for sale, but it has invented a new type of DDR3, one that focuses on low energy use without crippling performance or increasing costs overmuch.
The new RAM (random access memory) chips that Micron has made are called DDR3Lm and come in 2 Gigabit and 4 Gigabit capacities.
Both of... |
10 February 2012
03:31 GMT |
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G.Skill is living up to its name as world-class supplier of memory products by unleashing a new range of DDR3 RAM for smaller systems and other unusual desktops.
G.Skill already has an extensive collection of RAM products for high-end, huge PCs, so it figured it may as well see what other people need.
Thus it was ... |
8 February 2012
15:31 GMT |
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We wrote that memory prices had finally stabilized, more or less, but the price point is quite low compared to what companies see as ideal.
Sure enough, reports are coming in about how makers of DRAM and NAND products have definitely seen better days.
During the month of January 2012, they saw their sales droppin... |
7 February 2012
04:17 GMT |
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It was just days ago that Micron's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Steve Appleton, was reported dead after suffering a plane crash.The company has now decided who the new chief executive is going to be, namely D. Mark Durcan, who has served as Chief Operating Officer of Micron since 2007.He will also serve on Mic... |
6 February 2012
11:18 GMT |
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After losing a major patent against NVIDIA, Rambus has announced that it has acquired a privately-held memory technology company, complete with its own special portfolio.
Rambus has managed to get Unity Semiconductor to sign a deal through which the latter becomes part of the former in exchange for $35 million in c... |
6 February 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Memory maker Super Talent has just announced the introduction of a new line of high- speed DDR3 memory compatible with quad-channel desktop computers.The Super Talent memory modules will be available both in a kit form and as standalone DDR3 sticks, but no matter the option one choses, all of these feature similar sp... |
4 February 2012
04:10 GMT |
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It appears that the memory industry may have finally gone past that stage where demand was so severely overshadowed by supply.
According to the most recent findings of DRAMeXchange, a research division of TrendForce, the prices of memory modules and kits are stabilizing.
That is to say, the supply of chips and mo... |
1 February 2012
05:50 GMT |
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Introduced back in October last year, ADATA’s Premier memory series has just received the addition of a new set of 8GB memory modules, working at 1600MHz speeds, that are available in both DIMM and SO-DIMM form factors.
Compared to standard memory, these new Premier series modules are built only with DRAM chip... |
1 February 2012
05:06 GMT |
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Inphi Corporation has just announced that AMD's Opteron 6200 series of processors is ready to use its load-reduced dual-inline memory modules (LRDIMMs) featuring Inphi's Isolation Memory Buffer (iMB).
Of course, it would be much more accurate to say that Inphi's memory is finally ready to work in ser... |
31 January 2012
09:44 GMT |
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Two months after making their North American debut, AMD branded memory modules have also reached Europe, and the UK, where they will go on sale in the coming weeks.
AMD’s memory series is split into three categories depending on the market they target.
The simplest of these solutions are being released into ... |
26 January 2012
04:00 GMT |
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Memory maker Kingmax has just announced the introduction of a new line of high- speed DDR3 memory compatible with quad-channel systems that was designed in order to run at speeds of up to 2200MHz. The Kingmax memory modules will be available both in a kit form and as standalone DDR3 sticks, but no matter the option ... |
24 January 2012
06:02 GMT |
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Samsung has just announced a new hybrid memory device, one that combines the benefits of two distinct types: NAND Flash and Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM).
Samsung came up with a memory solution that is supposed to serve the entry-level and mainstream smartphone market segments.
Normally, DRAM and NAND Flash ... |
20 January 2012
13:21 GMT |
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2012's first couple of weeks have passed so, naturally, market watchers looked at what has been happening on the NAND Flash storage market.Apparently, product vendors decided to wait until after the Chinese New Year before committing to more orders.That allows NAND Flash chip prices to fall slightly, or so Digit... |
18 January 2012
16:37 GMT |
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Since it wasn't about to miss out on the opportunity that CES gave it, Kingston came along and put several products on display.
Predictably, since the HyperX line of memory modules has brought it a lot of fame over the years, its exhibition includes new additions to the series.
VR-Zone reports three different... |
12 January 2012
05:18 GMT |
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Team Group's latest press release states that the company is ready to sell quad-channel memory for systems based on the latest Intel CPUs.
The new memory series that Team Group has launched is called Team Xtreem LV DD3 2600 Quad-Channel CL10.
The name alone is enough for people to guess the most important det... |
11 January 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Crucial has already said its piece on the solid-state drive market so it was only a matter of time until it made a move on the RAM segment.
With the 2012 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2012) less than a day away, Crucial formally released its latest batch of memory products.
They aren't just a... |
9 January 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Team Group decided to launch a memory module for people who want to play with clock speeds but don't have a fortune to spend on super PCs.
The Xtreem Dark DDR3 1600CL9 is a single-channel module which, as its name makes it clear, has a base frequency of 1,600 MHz and a latency of CL9-9-9-24.
It works on a volt... |
6 January 2012
05:41 GMT |
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After over a year of troubling price decline, random access memory chips and, by extension, modules, may finally experience a respite.
That is to say, the companies that produce RAM won't have any more reason to bemoan their ailing finances.
Though low prices are only a motive for happiness as far as customer... |
3 January 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Elpida has begun to promote 4 Gb Wide IO Mobile RAM and 4 Gb DDR3 Mobile RAM (LPDDR3) memory chips.The memory manufacturer believes that these latest products can simultaneously satisfy both of the two, great needs of customers.Those needs, for performance and energy efficiency, are rather hard to fulfill at once.Fo... |
29 December 2011
10:15 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston (UTHealth) say that sea snails and humans are actually pretty similar when it comes to studies dealing with memories. A new research carried out by the team reveals a new way of boosting memory, which was inspired by the mollusks.
The work has ... |
27 December 2011
10:00 GMT |
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Looks like the level of data security displayed by today's memory cards is not exactly at the level people, or some of them, want it to be, so five major players in this field decided to do something about it.“Next Generation Secure Memory Initiative” is what Panasonic, Samsung, SanDisk, Sony and To... |
19 December 2011
10:01 GMT |
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Micron has been working with both Intel and IBM on 3D memory chips and, now, the company has begun a close collaboration with JEDEC for the standardization of the 3DS DRAM interface and die-stacking technology.
JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, formerly known as the Joint Electron Devices Engineering Coun... |
17 December 2011
10:41 GMT |
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One might not think that the floods in Thailand would affect memory sales, of all things, but they just might, albeit indirectly.
The floods that shut down factories in Thailand crippled the worldwide supply chain of hard disk drive units.
Thus, with fewer storage devices to go around, fewer PCs will sell during ... |
14 December 2011
16:11 GMT |
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Netlist, a well known maker of high performance server memory, claims that its HyperCloud DDR3 modules are faster than the more common LRDIMM memory according to the company’s own internal tests.As Netlist explains, these tests were performed on two identical dual-socket systems powered by Intel’s upcomin... |
14 December 2011
10:13 GMT |
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We've been saying that RAM is cheap enough for super capacities to become mainstream and, sure enough, kits like the offer from G.Skill aren't all that users should take a look at.
If you want a huge amount of RAM in your system, and don't mind lacking ECC, the 64 GB kit from G.Skill is probably the ... |
13 December 2011
18:01 GMT |
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We heard this before but we're hearing it again: memory chip and, by extension, memory module and kit prices can't go much lower than they are now.
Perhaps it's because of the minor rebound of some weeks back, or perhaps it is because consumers are just that unmotivated to buy a new memory product.
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13 December 2011
10:32 GMT |
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G.Skill’s famous Ripjaws Z series of memory solutions has just received another member, a 64GB kit that is capable of reaching DDR3 2400MHz speeds in quad-channel mode when used together with Intel’s LGA 2011 processors based on the Sandy Bridge-E architecture.The memory modules used in this kit sport G.S... |
13 December 2011
04:51 GMT |
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Babies who have a low weight at birth, or who are delivered before term, are known to achieve lower cognitive test scores than their peers, but now scientists show exactly how birth issues affect executive functioning. The work focused primarily on attention and memory.
According to the research team, preterm babies... |
12 December 2011
04:46 GMT |
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At this year’s IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), IMEC has showcased a fully functional Resistive RAM (RRAM) cell measuring 10-nm by 10-nm, which the organization claims is the smallest such cell to be developed yet.RRAM is one of the emerging technologies for nonvolatile memory to be researche... |
9 December 2011
16:11 GMT |
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Gaming notebooks purchased from AVADirect can now be configured with up to 32GB of RAM system memory as the company has finalized testing the compatibility of these laptops with high-capacity 32GB DDR3 kits.Until recently, AVADirect only allowed its customers to add 32GB of system memory to notebooks based on Intel L... |
9 December 2011
04:34 GMT |
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Only a few days after Corsair announced that it achieved a new DDR3 world record with their Dominator GTX6 memory series, Kingston with the help of the guys from Lab 501 took this WR to a whole new level surpassing the previous result with a cool 133MHz data rate.Softpedia was there during this world record attempt a... |
8 December 2011
06:05 GMT |
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IBM is one of those multilateral companies that always work on something with long-term implications, and one project has reached prototype stage, after seven years of research and development.
Racetrack memory is something that claims to combine the assets of DRAM memory and today's hard disk drives.
This i... |
6 December 2011
17:51 GMT |
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Intel and Micron announced earlier today that the two companies have started mass production of 64Gb NAND memory chips built using the 20nm node which will be used in Solid State Drives, tablets, smartphones, and other devices.The chips, which entered test production in April of this year, are built BY IMFT (Intel Mi... |
6 December 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Intel and Micron has just announced that the companies have managed to develop the world’s first 20 nanometer 128 gigabit (Gb), multilevel-cell (MLC) NAND device that will enable SSD manufacturers to build more spacious drives at lower price points.The chip was actually developed by IM Flash Technologies (IMFT)... |
6 December 2011
10:05 GMT |
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IBM isn't the only company to devise revolutionary memory, as Intel and ITRI want to make their own, one that is supposed to be both powerful and very power efficient compared to what exists today.
Back when we mentioned JEDEC and its DDR4, it became easy to see that the memory market isn't that good at p... |
6 December 2011
10:03 GMT |
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Since high-end motherboards and the Intel Sandy Bridge-E line of chips support super high-end, quad-channel memory, Team group decided to release two such kits, as well as a pair of dual-channel kits for good measure.
The quad-channel kits are Xtreem LV DDR3 2400 CL9 and DDR3 2400 CL11.
Their names are quite self-e... |
2 December 2011
08:47 GMT |
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Now that desktop DDR3 has pretty much hit its maximum frequency potential, memory makers have turned their attention towards the notebook space and going with this trend Corsair has just announced a new 8GB SODIMM dual-channel upgrade kit that works at 1866MHz.The new kit is part of the company’s Vengeance memo... |
1 December 2011
09:03 GMT |
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Memory maker Super Talent has just announced the introduction of a new line of high speed RDIMM memory compatible with quad-channel systems that was designed in order to run at speeds of 1600MHz.When it developed these RDIMMs (registered DIMMs), the maker has in mind the new generation of server processors with quad-... |
30 November 2011
11:37 GMT |
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You'd think that, after repeated optimistic reports about the situation on the memory market, things would start looking up for that sector, but the most recent news on the matter says otherwise.
Apparently, the second half of November, 2011 (this month) only brought about further decline in DRAM pricing.
Thi... |
29 November 2011
10:02 GMT |
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In a move that might further cause memory products to get expensive again, Kingston is supposedly leaning towards buying large chip quantities from Elpida and Toshiba.
More precisely, Kingston could end up ordering memory chips, on a large scale, from those companies, so as to enable them to actually get their stoc... |
28 November 2011
15:41 GMT |
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The DRAM market may have done poorly over the past year, and the past two quarters in particular, but that doesn't mean that all companies were in as much of a difficulty as the others.
In fact, Samsung and Micron actually thrived, even unlike Toshiba and Elpida, which are so overstocked that Kingston felt itse... |
28 November 2011
08:35 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices makes CPUs and video cards but, now, it has memory as well, even though it isn't really its own, so to speak. The Sunnyvale, California-based company revealed that consumers will be able to find AMD-branded memory modules and kits for desktop PCs from now on. This is probably the chip m... |
28 November 2011
02:54 GMT |
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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 |
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Wilk Elektronik, the company behind the GOODRAM memory brand, has just announced that it has expanded its product portfolio with the introduction of a new 8GB high-capacity DDR3 module, adding its name to an ever growing list of memory makers that already have such solutions available.The new 8GB DDR3 stick requires ... |
25 November 2011
10:49 GMT |
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Elpida Memory, one of the largest DRAM makers in the world, has just announced that it has developed a low-power mobile 4 Gigabit DDR3 (LPDDR3) memory chip that is capable of reaching a transfer speed of 1600Mbps.The memory chip is built using the advanced 30nm CMOS process technology and it can achieve the 1600Mbps ... |
25 November 2011
06:09 GMT |
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People may not have caught on to just how far the situation on the DRAM market had gotten, but they might get an idea when they learn that some companies that make random access memory chips want to get rid of some of their factories. Manufacturers of dynamic random access memory chips are in something of a bind ri... |
24 November 2011
10:54 GMT |
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German memory products maker Exceleram, has just announced the introduction of a new high density 8GB DDR3 module that was designed in order to come as the cheapest solution of this type to reach the market.
The new DDR3 module is called the E30200A and is designed as a no-frills DDR3 memory stick lacking even a h... |
24 November 2011
07:11 GMT |
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When it comes to setting world records, no processor seems to be a match for AMD's Bulldozer-based FX-8150, which was recently used by an overclocker together with a pair of Corsair Dominator GT DDR3 modules to set a new WR memory frequency of 1733.8MHz (DDR3-3467). The record was achieved by Jake "Planet" Crim... |
23 November 2011
03:22 GMT |
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