The future of RAM.

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23859.wss

its called stringing the piggies along for years before anything remotely similar to whats being promised. screw gddr3 im waiting for 5 or 6 ^ ^.gddr 3 prices have fallen too quickly wink* wink*

So where is all this great, non-volatile ultrafast memory we've been promised for years? Seems to me that would cut the power budget a bit if done right.

Jason Goatcher said "Of course, that's assuming we get something called DDR5 at all. I've heard ruminations that we may move on to something else entirely. Haven't really researched it though, so don't quote me".

Seriously, that was one of the most unintentionally funny posts I've read in quite some time. Actual out loud laughing. Cheers.

@memory hungry. GDDR isn't the same as DDR. The problems with GDDR4 won't affect DDR4 at all.

i'd never considered memory to be any factor in system power usage, until recently. 4 sticks of ddr3 that i installed on my am3 mb were getting just as hot as my video card. had to shell some $ for a dedicated memory module fan. chips are not overclocked beyond manufacturer specks (i think that i actually run them lower but with tight timings)

The first memory went at a certain speed(I forget what) DDR(Double data rate) goes at twice that speed. DDR2, doubled again, DDR3, doubled a third time. 2^3 or 8. Are you beginning to see a pattern here? DDR5 is, wait for it...32 times as fast as the stuff we started with.

Of course, that's assuming we get something called DDR5 at all. I've heard ruminations that we may move on to something else entirely. Haven't really researched it though, so don't quote me.

Another Drashek WaterMellon Pie? NO.

Today Elphedria Samples Hit for NEW DDR2 with 32 bit. twice old & less power,now. although at DDR2 voltages. Past was 16 bit & used assemble/disassemble that took two lines in & Out for 16bitx2. Now whole shebangun does it all in one simple 32bit step.

sample shipments of a 2-gigabit x32-bit I/O DDR2 SDRAM that operates up to a high speed of 1066 Mbps. The new memory device is capable of meeting the need for 1.8V x32-bit

Why not just skip DDR4 directly to DDR5? Everyone knows that DDR4 didn't show any improvement over DDR3, it was shortly available in graphic cards market before it was dumped completely (just in some high end ATI cards).
DDR2 was not necessarily as well, but at least it brought a significant frequency boost.