Samsung develops first 4GB RAM chip

VonBlade · #1 30-01-09, 09:44 AM

Samsung has developed the Worlds first 4GB DDR3 chip, making 32GB DIMMs a possibility.

Read more in the news article here.

monkey7 · #2 30-01-09, 09:45 AM

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EDIT: oh, works now. Sounds like you were picked for the news team member?

I'm afraid of the prices of that RAM though. And I'm also wondering about its maximum speed.

premiumgfx · #3 30-01-09, 09:47 AM

32Gb would be quite alot, and expensive. Although its good to see technology moving forward. Four 32Gb DIMMs would be the max a 64 Bit OS could handle.

monkey7 · #4 30-01-09, 09:59 AM

Correction: what Vista could handle. A 64bit OS could in theory handle up to 2^64 bit

~= 1.845e+19 bit

~= 2.3e+18 bytes

~= 2.14e+9 GigaBytes.

~= 2.097.152 TeraBytes

~= 2048 ... what's after TB?

No way we'll reach that for now

I really hope w7 has solved the 128GB limit issue.

premiumgfx · #5 30-01-09, 10:16 AM

I think Petabyte is after Terabyte. Windows Vista seems to be the weakest link.

VonBlade · #6 30-01-09, 10:42 AM

It's gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte.

Now I'd suggest we wont see the last of those in our lifetime, but then I remember when a megabyte was so much memory you couldn't comprehend it and we're already at terabytes.

Jim · #7 30-01-09, 10:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by name='VonBlade'

It's gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte.

Now I'd suggest we wont see the last of those in our lifetime, but then I remember when a megabyte was so much memory you couldn't comprehend it and we're already at terabytes.

Can't wait for my 4YOB's to arrive

soapsupah · #8 30-01-09, 11:20 AM

that's a good news, but still they should made a DDR3 that works with 1,2v or less, before doing more and more gigs on the ram lol; and its price must be killer :stickpoke; also i wonder when i will have my 2yot hd

maybe when im 97??

nathan · #9 30-01-09, 05:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by name='monkey7'

Correction: what Vista could handle. A 64bit OS could in theory handle up to 2^64 bit

~= 1.845e+19 bit

~= 2.3e+18 bytes

~= 2.14e+9 GigaBytes.

~= 2.097.152 TeraBytes

~= 2048 ... what's after TB?

No way we'll reach that for now

I really hope w7 has solved the 128GB limit issue.

lol, I thikn the 128gb limit is prob far down on the list of things to fix!

Rastalovich · #10 30-01-09, 07:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by name='VonBlade'

It's gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte.

Now I'd suggest we wont see the last of those in our lifetime, but then I remember when a megabyte was so much memory you couldn't comprehend it and we're already at terabytes.

Didn't u know that retailers re-wrote the books on how this is notated ?

U have to replace the "a" in all of those with "i". A gigabyte is now a factor of 10. A gigibyte is the old gigabyte. Just like all the other expressions, like megabyte.

Aint it great how u can change the world when u have cash behind u.

The expression for 4GB is now 4GiB.