DDR3 ready for developers to Test

[FarFarAway]

Xbit had this little tid-bit of news to take a look-see at .

It seems that the first DDR3 is being shipped by infineon to all the developers and manufactorers.

I think that the next AMD platform will possibly support DDR3 as it looks like AMD wanted to skip the DDr2 Intel Revolution in favour of something better.

Infineon currently provides 800MHz and 1067MHz DDR3 memory chips with 1.5V voltage, but it expects performance of DDR3 to scale towards 1600MHz, which is more than twice the rate of today’s highest official DDR2 speed bin.

Heres the reason I think that AMD went for waiting:

Samsung Electronics announced in mid-February it had made the world’s first 512Mb memory chip which complies to next-generation DDR3 standard and can operate at the speed on 1066MHz. The prototype operates at 1.5V and transfers data at the speed of 1066Mbps. Samsung says DDR3 memory will be made using 80nm process technology; at present the company uses 90nm for DDR and DDR2 SDRAM production.

In addition to micro-architectural advantages DDR2 memory brings over the original DDR memory, such as, On-Die Termination (ODT) as well as larger 4-bit prefetch, additive latency, and enhanced registers, the DDR3 features self-driver calibration and data synchronization.

Well well...sound any good? I think so

Full article at Xbitlabs

 

[limqareb]

the higher the mhz the loser the timings ? i am very confused because i have seen you discussing things like them and i neve understood

 

[Dav0s]

yes u pretty much got it......looser timings = more stable at higher fsb

 

[NickS]

Yeah, good for AMD. DDR2 is 'teh suck.' Ridiculous timings with that JUNK.

 

[FragTek]

omfg... me want now!

This is some great news for AMD... I'm so glad they held out for this because it's going to blow Intels crappy idea that DDR2 is the best thing since sliced bread out of the friggin' water!

 

[ionicle_old]

mi old stick of ddr2 is infedon, but this loooks waaaaaay better, atleast amd will use it unlike ddr-2

 

[FalconFX]

Thats good news !

I never realy liked DDR 2...

To expensive for the performance

 

[enVias]

Thats good news !

I never realy liked DDR 2...

To expensive for the performance

Cheaper than DDR here, lol

 

[FalconFX]

it is ?!

It isnt where i shop...

 

[enVias]

it is ?!

It isnt where i shop...

Australia has some wierd prices..

 

[FalconFX]

Yes i guess so