Monday, April 4th 2011
Hynix Introduces High Performance DDR4 DRAM
Hynix Semiconductor Inc. ('Hynix') today announced that it has developed 2Gb(Gigabit) DDR4 DRAM and DDR4 DRAM based 2GB(Gigabyte) ECC-SODIMM(Error Check & Correction Small Outline Dual In-line Memory Module) applying its leading 30nm class process technology. The DDR4 DRAM product meets the JEDEC standard and the module product is designed for the micro server.
DDR4 DRAM is a next generation memory product which consumes less electronic power while it transfers data as twice as faster than the existing DDR3 DRAM. The device works at the industry's fastest speed of 2400Mbps(Megabits per second), which is also 80% faster than DDR3 1333Mbps product. The Module product operates at such a low voltage of 1.2V and processes up to 19.2 GB (Gigabytes) of data per second with a 64-bit I/O.
"The DDR4 products fully support various demanding features including eco-friendly, energy efficient, high performance." said Mr. Ji-Bum Kim, Chief Marketing Officer of Hynix. "With this product, Hynix will be able to provide premium solutions to our customers not only in the PC and server but also in the tablet market."
Hynix plans to start volume production of this high performance DDR4 product in the second half of 2012.
According to market research firm, iSuppli, the portion of the DDR4 DRAM is expected to increase from 5% in 2013 to over 50% in 2015 and become a mainstream in the market. While the demand DDR3 DRAM will reach its peak in 2012 with 71% portion and will eventually decrease to 49% in 2014.
DDR4 DRAM is a next generation memory product which consumes less electronic power while it transfers data as twice as faster than the existing DDR3 DRAM. The device works at the industry's fastest speed of 2400Mbps(Megabits per second), which is also 80% faster than DDR3 1333Mbps product. The Module product operates at such a low voltage of 1.2V and processes up to 19.2 GB (Gigabytes) of data per second with a 64-bit I/O.
Hynix plans to start volume production of this high performance DDR4 product in the second half of 2012.
According to market research firm, iSuppli, the portion of the DDR4 DRAM is expected to increase from 5% in 2013 to over 50% in 2015 and become a mainstream in the market. While the demand DDR3 DRAM will reach its peak in 2012 with 71% portion and will eventually decrease to 49% in 2014.
45 Comments on Hynix Introduces High Performance DDR4 DRAM
- Tell us what 2000mhz DDR3 outputs in MBPS? Why, it's 2000Mbps.... The "frequency" of memory is how often it can transmit a bit of data. Geddit?
In other news, given the next to zilch benefits that X58 seems to get vs. P55 from increased memory bandwidth, I think we're some way off mainstream PCs needing or even benefiting from DDR4, let alone quad channel DDR4 :(I'm guessing this won't be in use until q3 2012 or beyond though considering both bulldozer and lga2011 are going to be ddr3 based.
This was a bit faster than expected though, but we still have more than a year to go.
WORLD ENDING!
Y2K bug!
please keep this drivel out of the news posts.
I'm curious though, if mass production wont start until the second half of 2012 will there be any jumps in DDR3 speed released before then? or is it around the limit not long after 2ghz?
DDR4 should support 2666/3200 early in its life cycle, imo, since they usually double the previous generations speed.
Though as u said most setups only support 1600 (or 1866 with some things this year) without overclocking so all these crazy RAM speeds are greatly limited by the CPU to the point where things like those 2.5ghz g.skill modules are kind of pointless to most users, i really hope the DDR4 controllers handle crazy speeds well.
I'm sure i read last year the DDR4 JEDEC standard would be released next year but i have not noticed anything about them, am i right to assume they have not been released yet?
If not then i look forward to seeing what they are and if they are out already i need to learn to use google better :laugh:
Makes sense though given they are basically the same thing to the end user.
DDR advertising is very confusing as companies pretty much always shown the transfer rate as the clock rate. Although to be fair DDR3 1600Mhz sounds much better than DDR3 200MHz......