Samsung to Offer 1Gb XDR DRAM
Elpida’s 1Gb XDR DRAM
Rambus on Friday said that Samsung Electronics would offer a 1Gb XDR DRAM memory device.
Samsung and Elpida are the only suppliers of XDR since Qimonda stopped production. With clock-speeds of 3.20GHz to 6.40GHz, XDR memory chips are currently mostly used on PlayStation 3 game systems.
Samsung’s 1Gb XDR DRAM device is expected to broaden the availability of XDR technology for gaming, computing, and consumer electronics applications.
December 7th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Any chance that we’ll see this on future video cards? Hey, a guy can dream =D
December 7th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
@Mathieu Bourgie: I believe that the SpursEngine (based on Cell-CPU) is already using this kind of memory to enhance SD-video to HD. Toshiba is already integrating these XDR side-memorymodules and the SpursEngine in its high-end laptops.
But as you said, hopefully we’ll see these on videocards =) I remember when GDDR4 was introduced and like a handful of cards was introduced with GDDR4. It totally sucked.