Most mobile devices today use NAND flash memory. It’s fast! But ReRAM – a joint project of Sharp and Elipa – promises to be 10,000 times faster. And they say they can commercialise it by 2013. What’s that mean for you?
When the PS3 launched, 120MB of its 512MB of RAM were dedicated at all times to the OS. (To put that footprint in perspective, the Xbox 360′s OS only used 32MB.) Luckily, Sony has refined their system.
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]
Corsair’s Dominator GTX 2333MHz is the fastest RAM you can buy that’s Intel XMP-certified, at 2333MHz with latencies of 9-11-9-27. Each 2GB module is individually tested, in case you’re wondering why else it’s $US200 a stick.
Look, I have no problem with people who are into building their own computers. It’s cheaper than buying a premade tower, and you get a real sense of satisfaction out of building something yourself. But you’ve gotta have limits.
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.
Maximum PC tests and answers the three biggest questions you have about RAM: How much better is DDR3 than DDR2? Is high-speed RAM worth it? How much RAM do you really need?
