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hokiealumnus

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I received this press release overnight and thought it was worth a forum post. Sounds like DDR4 is coming moderately soon (next year maybe?). Voltage I don't care about; DDR3 is already very cool running. Density & speed, however (up to 128 GB per chip & starting at 2133 MHz) are what I'm excited to see.
Innodisk Releases DDR4 RDIMM Samples to Server Market
Innovating today’s Industrial Grade Storage for Tomorrow’s Challenges

May 16, 2013, Taipei, Taiwan – Innodisk is proud to be among the first to supply (DDR4) registered DIMM product samples to key server companies for their next-generation systems. With this announcement, Innodisk, an industry leader in DRAM modules for industrial applications and embedded systems, will continue to offer the most advanced technology to its customers.

The result of almost eight years of development, DDR4 (Double Data Rate 4) technology improves on the previous generation, DDR3, in every way. These new memory products provide users with greater performance, but can still cut costs by saving power and space, and reducing waste heat.

Performance:
DDR4 offers a giant leap in peak performance over DDR3 technology, with a 3.2 Gbps data transfer rate. In fact, DDR4 could eventually even surpass this already high rate, according to standards organization JEDEC, in the same way that DDR3 surpassed its initial ceiling of 1.6 Gbps. DDR4 memory bus speeds start at 2133MHz, which already offers a huge jump in potential performance from the average bus speed of 1333MHz and 1666MHz offered by DDR3.

Voltage:
DDR4 devices run on significantly lower voltages than devices using DDR3 or DDR2 technology. JEDEC's specifications suggest that DDR4 will operate with a power envelope of 1.2 volts, compared to the 1.5 volts demanded by the more power-hungry DDR3 generation. Lower voltages help extend component lifespans.

Power consumption:
DDR4 modules will reduce power consumption by approximately 40 percent compared to its predecessor DDR3 modules operating at 1.35V. Lower power consumption offers lower operating costs by cutting power bills, as well as a substantial reduction in heat output which helps extend lifetimes of system components, further reducing costs.

Density:
With DDR4, the maximum capacity per chip has now been doubled from 64GB to 128GB. The higher memory densities possible with DDR4 will save space, simplify module construction, and improve internal airflow.

With this head start in DDR4 technology, Innodisk is ready meet the needs of tomorrow's applications. As the IT landscape moves to adopt cloud computing practices, companies are relying more heavily on data centers with powerful server infrastructures. Innodisk offers registered DIMM in capacities of 4GB, 8GB and 16GB, so that Innodisk server customers can always be sure to have the perfect product to suit the exact capacity of each of their system designs.

Innodisk looks forward to working together with server OEMs to create the next-generation platforms that are demanded by tomorrow’s challenges.

About Innodisk
Founded in Taiwan in 2005, and with a US-based support and engineering team, Innodisk Corporation has become the industry-leading manufacturer and solution provider of flash storage devices and DRAM modules for industrial applications and embedded systems, with a focus on the enterprise, industrial, aerospace, and defense industries. With its long experience and an unrivaled knowledge of the memory industry, Innodisk has developed a series of products with excellent quality, remarkable performance, great cost-efficiency, and the highest reliability. For more information about Innodisk, please visit http://www.innodisk.com/.
 
I received this press release overnight and thought it was worth a forum post. Sounds like DDR4 is coming moderately soon (next year maybe?). Voltage I don't care about; DDR3 is already very cool running. Density & speed, however (up to 128 GB per chip & starting at 2133 MHz) are what I'm excited to see.

Huzzah! This is looking to be a leap worth the wait! Hopefully it actually translates to real-world gains! Wonder if the clk latencies are going to leap again?

One day they'll work on getting those down again :(
 
Cool, any idea on how much better DDR4 is than DDR3? % faster?

2133 is very fast Q_Q, not like it ever mattered much...
 
any word if its the same bit width as DDR3 and older? would be nice if they would up the width with this increase in clock speed. considering we are now talking about 128gb per dimm size.
 
128gb max per stick would be insane! desktop DDR4 may have 16gb and maybe 32gb sticks to start and maybe 64gb later! (no worry for Ram here I come!)
also I wish they would move Quad channel to desktop
 
128gb max per stick would be insane! desktop DDR4 may have 16gb and maybe 32gb sticks to start and maybe 64gb later! (no worry for Ram here I come!)
also I wish they would move Quad channel to desktop

not sure why, you could acheive the same bw numbers by doubling the width of each channel. then all you would need is dual channel, but imagine quad channel with double the memory width, that would be insane! :attn:

it is on desktop boards but intels higher end socket, i dont see that coming down to the cheaper sockets any time soon.
 
not sure why, you could acheive the same bw numbers by doubling the width of each channel. then all you would need is dual channel, but imagine quad channel with double the memory width, that would be insane! :attn:

it is on desktop boards but intels higher end socket, i dont see that coming down to the cheaper sockets any time soon.

WOW that would be insane think on what something like a APU could do! :drool:

and I don't rly count the 2011 stuff as desktop I think of it more was work station or some1 that would rly so the power
cause what stopping all of us running Quad CPU Quad crossfire/SLI GPUs? Price (and I don't think they have quad socket that can do quad GPU)
so servers board could = desktop just you would need a very large desk :D

but if the money is right and im still not only playing WOT I probly will get a desktop DDR4 computer but that's min of year im thinking more like 2 when the Next intel socket(not cpu) comes out (probly will be 1144 :p )
 
That is sweet ddr4 looks to be good on paper, hope it just as good in the desktop..... Some serious speed there!!! And yes quad channel needs to make it to mainstream and not stay on high end market....
 
2133 clock won't make any difference as timings will be looser ( probably CL13+ ) and latency higher so effective performance won't change much.
The only difference that really matters right now are higher capacity sticks.
Probably desktops will see DDR4 in more mature stage and much higher clocks but without good memory controllers it still won't change much.
 
2133 clock won't make any difference as timings will be looser ( probably CL13+ ) and latency higher so effective performance won't change much.
The only difference that really matters right now are higher capacity sticks.
Probably desktops will see DDR4 in more mature stage and much higher clocks but without good memory controllers it still won't change much.

Exactly what I was afraid of, personally. I think after all this time, tighter timings per clock should have been possible with DDR4. Give us GDDR modules / slots on our mobos? :(
 
Yeah starting at 2133 CAS14, if I recall correctly from my meeting with Crucial.
Server stuff late this year, desktop stuff mid to late next year.

Do keep in mind that those are the JEDEC timings, much like DDR3 starts at 800MHz (not, mind you, 1600MHz) CAS 8 or so.
 
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