Friday, March 17th 2017

AMD's Radeon Memory Business at a Standstill

AMD's Radeon branded memory business appears to be at a standstill, with no new product launches since 2015, and Radeon memory products out of stock (or nearly out of stock) at key retailers across North America.

When AMD was asked if it was planning to exit the memory business altogether, a company spokesperson replied that the memory is still being sold but is "mostly distributed in Eastern Europe, only small quantities are diverted to North America."
Despite AMD's lack of admission that they are outright exiting the industry, it is obvious they are at least downsizing. Industry analysts point out that AMD may simply be evaluating whether the product line is worth competing in at all: The DRAM business is not critical to AMD, and is highly competitive. In the past, AMD has managed those risks by simply rebranding other memory manufactures products with the "Radeon" title, but perhaps even that did not prove lucrative enough for them. Only time will tell. For now, the product line is obviously in a state of limbo.
Source: PCWorld
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31 Comments on AMD's Radeon Memory Business at a Standstill

#26
bug
eidairaman1Xmp has been an issue on intels own x99 platform even.

With my experimentation I believe the spd tables and mobo bios determine what ram can and can't do, example my ram at 2400 will run at its tightest of 10 cas with 16GB, bear in mind this is 2133 ram, drop it to 9 the rig only will allow single channel and only 8gb of it are useable.

See my signature.
XMP is not part of the DDR spec, tho ;)
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#27
eidairaman1
The Exiled Airman
bugXMP is not part of the DDR spec, tho ;)
Tell me again what desktop memory doesnt have xmp on it?
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#28
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eidairaman1Tell me again what desktop memory doesnt have xmp on it?
That's not the point. The point is, whatever JEDEC spec the memory claims to support, should work on all platforms. XMP is an extension you may use. Or not.
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#29
dorsetknob
"YOUR RMA REQUEST IS CON-REFUSED"
bugwhatever JEDEC spec the memory claims to support, should work on all platforms
If that's the case how about Apple and its Official Memory Spec's/ Support list why don't some vendors mem work in those Devices
Tell you why
White listed parts
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#30
Donny Stanley
FordGT90ConceptDon't like any rebrands really. It just crowds the market and confuses what you're actually buying.
Almost all the RAM on the market is a rebrand. There's only a handful of actual DRAM manufacturers the main ones being Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron. However, if we only had three companies actually selling memory to consumers, that would make prices even worse. We already suffer from DRAM price-fixing and supply chain issues because of the limited number of manufacturers in the space, but if the brands didn't exist to compete with each other either, it would be even worse.
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#31
eidairaman1
The Exiled Airman
bugThat's not the point. The point is, whatever JEDEC spec the memory claims to support, should work on all platforms. XMP is an extension you may use. Or not.
But it doesn't
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