SK Hynix Develops 128GB Stick of DDR4 RAM

[WYP]

SK Hynix, one of the leading producers of RAM modules, announced a single stick of DDR4 with 128GB capacity.

While this is intended for the server room, it makes me wonder how much ram our systems will have in the near future. At present is difficult to find a board that can support more than 64GB in total, let alone twice that, per stick!

Us us typical desktop user, or even the most hardened enthousiast, let's face it, this is super crazy overkill, eight times over, and that is only one stick!

With servers consuming more and more memory, it is clear why these exist. Lower power requirements of DDR4 and the sheer ammount of memory.

SK Hynix Senior Vice President Sung Joo Hong said this;

“The development of the world’s first 128GB DDR4 module has its significance in opening ultrahigh density server market”

“The Company will further strengthen its competitiveness in premium DRAM sphere with the development of high density, ultrahigh speed and low power consuming products”

With it still unclear how much memory next generation Haswell-EX motherboard Intel X99 motherboards will support, we could be looking at the potential to have a very large bank of memory in our future systems.

While can can assume that this stick will not be compatible with a consumer Haswell-E system... but we can always dream, right?

Source - SK Hynix

 

[Wraith]

Faster more efficient future servers I'm all for it as for desktops you just know someone somewhere is having a hard ePeen right now.

 

[SeekaX]

RAM might become a viable storage method after all.

 

[Dicehunter]

And my friends call me crazy for having 32GB of 2400 in a gaming rig, I'll show em crazy *insert maniacal laugh*

 

[QuietOne]

One of them is equivalent, if not more than my SSD. I could use one of those as my OS and steam drive.

 

[Wraith]

128GB RAM Drive actually sounds quite tasty.... mmm more chips please!

 

[NeverBackDown]

Now i want them to create 128GB of GDDR5 vram. Then i'll be impressed.

Though in all seriousness this won't be cheap but will be far faster than any Sata 3 SSD in the world... Looks like onboard(literally) storage is the future!

 

[SeekaX]

Now i want them to create 128GB of GDDR5 vram. Then i'll be impressed.

Though in all seriousness this won't be cheap but will be far faster than any Sata 3 SSD in the world... Looks like onboard(literally) storage is the future!

Dude. That will probably be the next big thing for Laptops. You can have 128GB of RAM fitted, you split 8GB off for normal RAM use and use the rest for your primary partition. Add in a normal 1-2TB 2.5" HDD for storage and you pretty much have a desktop storage setup.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Now give it like 5 years before its actually implemented and cost much less. Though this makes me wonder what exactly this tech could do for mobile. Obviously on a much smaller scale but it could be the one thing that actually makes the top end phones different in speed, considering they all basically use the exact same specs..

 

[Excalabur50]

The way things are going it wont be long before we start talking terabytes of ram instead of storage

 

[vorticalbox]

Dude. That will probably be the next big thing for Laptops. You can have 128GB of RAM fitted, you split 8GB off for normal RAM use and use the rest for your primary partition. Add in a normal 1-2TB 2.5" HDD for storage and you pretty much have a desktop storage setup.

Ram is volatile (loses data when powered off) so even if you did make a ram disk you would need somewhere to store the data before you powered down,

 

[SeekaX]

Ram is volatile (loses data when powered off) so even if you did make a ram disk you would need somewhere to store the data before you powered down,

You still have a 2.5" drive in your laptop

 

[vorticalbox]

You still have a 2.5" drive in your laptop

yeah i know but people are saying to use as storage, which all fine while its powered on but it has to go somewhere when there is no power.

you can have all the ram in the world but you will still be limited by the size of the storage on board.

 

[SeekaX]

yeah i know but people are saying to use as storage, which all fine while its powered on but it has to go somewhere when there is no power.

you can have all the ram in the world but you will still be limited by the size of the storage on board.

Yea i know, but that wasn't me, i know that RAM is volatile.
It allows you to have a storage drive and a fast primary drive at the same time, usually you only have one in a laptop.

 

[SPS]

RAM drives are pointless anyway. A program could just load everything into memory on startup.

 

[SuB]

RAM drives are pointless anyway. A program could just load everything into memory on startup.

You've clearly never run a game from a ramdrive

 

[SPS]

You've clearly never run a game from a ramdrive

If a game loaded everything into RAM on startup it would be exactly the same lol.

Point is, if RAM drives became mainstream, RAM size would be very big. In that case developers can just load everything into main memory instead of trying to preserve the use of memory.

 

[SuB]

If a game loaded everything into RAM on startup it would be exactly the same lol.

Point is, if RAM drives became mainstream, RAM size would be very big. In that case developers can just load everything into main memory instead of trying to preserve the use of memory.

Make it happen.. YOU ARE THE FUTURE!!!

 

[SPS]

Make it happen.. YOU ARE THE FUTURE!!!

Haha, well when I develop for PC I prefer to cater for high performance builds. But let's face it, ignoring mid-low end hardware is not a viable marketing strategy unless you've crowd funded over $40 million :lol:

 

[SuB]

Haha, well when I develop for PC I prefer to cater for high performance builds. But let's face it, ignoring mid-low end hardware is not a viable marketing strategy unless you've crowd funded over $40 million :lol:

That sounds like a dig, is that a dig?