DDR krijgt steun van chipset en geheugen fabrikanten

Uit de donderdag afgesloten DDR Summit is gebleken dat DDR SDRAM op ruime steun van chipset en geheugen fabrikanten kan rekenen. AMD, VIA, ALI en ServerWorks (fabrikant van high-end server chipsets, o.a. gebruikt in Compaq Proliants en HP NetServers) hebben DDR chipsets aangekondigd en DRAM fabrikanten zijn blij met DDR omdat het geen overziene produktieproblemen oplevert. Beschikbare produktiecapaciteit kan hierdoor beter benut worden dan bij Rambus, waarvan de yields zoals bekend niet florisant zijn:

"DDR Rocks!" That's how Micron Technology's Mike Siebert closed his presentation at the DDR Summit here Thursday. It was an oft-repeated sentiment as representatives from throughout the tech industry considered the future of their new favorite memory standard, double-data-rate SDRAM.

[...] ServerWorks is also betting on DDR, says David Dorrough, the company's technical marketing manager. ServerWorks makes chip sets for servers, and its next-generation products will use DDR.

DDR is the way to go for servers, Dorrough says. It offers excellent reliability, performance, power consumption, and cost. And it "leverages the industry's existing infrastructure," he adds.

Memory manufacturers on hand echo that opinion. Micron's Seibert says the technology is evolutionary instead of revolutionary, and it will be relatively easy to shift memory manufacturing plants from SDRAM to DDR. There may be a small cost premium over SDRAM at first, but it won't last long, he notes. Micron expects to begin shipping DDR in the third quarter.

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