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Micron causes DDR2 power cut
MICRON TECHNOLOGY IS LAUNCHING a range of DDR2 memory aimed at mobile applications which purportedly increases performance whilst reducing power draw.
The Low Power DDR2 (LPDDR2) chips, jointly developed by Micron and Nanya, come in 512 megabit and 1 gigabit flavours and will eventually end up in products around the 4Gb mark.
The most commonly used memory chips in current mobile devices are LPDDR1, which operate at 1.8 volts. Micron's latest offerings use just 1.2 volts, which the company assures us reduces power consumption by up to 50 per cent.
Data transfer rates are reported to be up to 1066 megabits per second.
Micron is currently sending out sample 1Gb modules to un-named companies and rumour has it even Nvidia is keen to work with the firm to develop its Tegra platform further.
Full production is expected to start in the second half of 2009. µ
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Wonder if Micron is stealing Rambus low power tech? Duh!
I don't think Rambus owns a patent on reducing Vcc from 1.8v to 1.2V :-)
Vcc reductions are a normal by-product of switching to a newer, more advanced process which this would appear to be.
The only thing worth stealing from Rambus is their lucrative business of suing the pants off of companies. Clearly this is more profitable than actually manufacturing memory.