AMD entering the RAM market?

[SieB]

AMD's website suggests that the company will be entering the RAM market soon with their own RAM modules. The modules will be branded as Radeon, just like AMD's GPUs. At first, AMD will launch three series: Entertainment, ULTRA PRO Gaming and Enterprise. All three will have the same density of 2GB and are based on the DDR3 standard, but the speeds will vary. The Entertainment series is 1333MHz and the ULTRA PRO Gaming series is 1600MHz. Timings are 9-9-9 and 11-11-11 respectively. All three series also share the voltage of 1.5V. The speeds of the Enterprise series are to be announced. Obviously, AMD claims that their memory is the most ideal for their APU and CPU systems but at least the specifications are no different from other manufacturers' RAM.

The more interesting fact is that the actual DRAM chips are also made by AMD. AMD hasn't been into the DRAM business before (or if they have, they have been very quiet about it), so this is a surprise. However, it is possible that the chips have just been rebranded and thus been manufactured by another company, but unfortunately we don't know any details at this point.

Source: http://www.anandtech...eonbranded-ddr3

This could be interesting, I wonder how long it will be before Nvidia try and compete with them if this is true

 

[TicTac]

Lol this might be interesting!

 

[ruthless_villain]

and then theyre going to make Motherboards, Cases, Good Heatsinks, Sound cards, Hard drives and solid state drives

 

[wotevajjjj]

no shocking specs, but should be good for their sales, and bundles

 

[AdrianD2]

Just wondering, who has made the RAM that goes into their videocards?

 

[Ya93sin]

No heatsinks? Maybe this is targeted at notebooks?

I think AMD need the money, otherwise why flog this old (but very good) name?

 

[yassarikhan786]

Looks interesting.