14 DAY TRIAL // 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, has seen the Japanese supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory as the fist manufacturer to release the 512-megabit DDR2 SDRAM with x32-bit I/O configuration.
If in the past, the DDR2 controller with x32-bit wide interface required two x16-bnit I/O DRAMS, what Elpida is now offering is a 512-meagbit DDR2 SDRAM with x32-bit I/O configuration designed to work as a one-chip solution. The new technology is said to bring a number of significant advantages over its predecessor. With the new x32-bit solution, users will deal with approximately 25% memory area reduction on the board. The list of advantages continues with a stated 20% less power consumption for these modules.
According to the Executive Office for Elpida's Digital Consumer Division, Yoshitaka Kinoshita, "Elpida's new x32-bit DDR2 product realizes a simpler board layout and it can support a four-layer board." Yoshitaka Kinoshita also added that this solution is expected to reduce customers' total system costs.
The technical specifications of this x32-bit I/O DDR2 feature a product that has been especially designed to meet the needs of small-size consumer electronic devices, and that will make it suited for use in digital consumer appliances. These consumer products feature a 1.8V low-voltage operation and low-power consumption.
As far as this product's technical specifications go, it is capable of achieving a peak data transfer rate of 1066Mbps. It is meant for Digital TVs, set-top boxes, personal navigation devices, printers, digital still cameras, digital video recorders, projectors and other similar products.