Samsung’s the first to make DDR3 RAM using a 30nm process, which will hit mass production later this year. It uses 30 per cent less power than RAM made at 50nm, and it’s twice as cost effective (meaning it’ll get even cheaper). [PC World]
Way to go, semiconductor suppliers. Thanks to you, we’re all going to be paying more for our PCs going forward. Possibly a lot more. More »
Not being much of a crazy overclocking modder myself, I don’t really get the ridiculous Fast and the Furious design on this A-Data XPG Plus RAM, but the stats don’t lie—this module is super speedy at 2,200MHz. More »
Samsung yammered back in January about making a 32-gigabyte DDR3 RAM stick, and now they’ve unveiled the beastly piece of hardware for servers. These new 1.35-volt modules are also 20-percent faster than previous 1.5-volt DDR3 modules. Nice. More »
May 9th is looking to be a big day for Intel. That’s when their new Bearlake chipset is expected to make its debut. In a nutshell, the new chipset will let you use DDR3 memory modules on your mobo. Cool, right? ‘Cause DDR3 is faster than DDR2? Not really.
You see, when benchmarked, today’s DDR2 memory beats DDR3 memory so until DDR3 hits 1.33GHz and 1.6GHz speeds, it’s not worth making any drastic upgrades for. Our advice, wait it out to see those initial Bearlake benchmarks and then make your upgrades. – Louis Ramirez
DDR3 Launch Set for May 9th [The Inquirer]
