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Who doesn’t want more speed with less power?
Samsung Electronics on Thursday announced a new state-of-the-art 512 GB DDR5 RAM module – which it said will consume 13% less electricity and will double the speed of existing cutting-edge technology.
The technology company based in South Korea said its first product in the industry is based on a new technology, the High-K Metal Gate, or HKMG, and will be supported by Intel’s next-generation scalable Xeon processors.
512 GB capacity DDR5 module made possible by an 8-layer TSV structure. HKMG material reduces power by 13 percent while doubling the speed of DDR4 (Samsung Newsroom)
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“By bringing this type of process innovation to DRAM manufacturing, we are able to offer our customers high-performance, low-power memory solutions to power the computers needed for medical research, financial markets, autonomous driving, cities smart and more ”. Young-Soo Sohn, the company’s vice president of DRAM memory planning, said in a statement.
The product is expected to meet the needs of supercomputing, AI and machine learning before it reaches consumer computers.
Samsung developed HKMG chips in 2018 – they use hafnium instead of silicon and are traditionally used in logical semiconductors, the company said. But, by placing it in DRAM modules, it will save energy consumption.
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The 512 GB capacity is achieved by stacking eight layers of 16 GB chips, according to the company.
The new DDR5 modules are expected to be launched later this year – as well as Intel’s scalable Xeon processors, code-named “Sapphire Rapids”.
| Ticker | Safety | Last | Change | Change % |
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| INTC | INTEL CORP. | 62.02 | -0.02 | -0.03% |
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“As the amount of data to be moved, stored and processed increases exponentially, the transition to DDR5 reaches a critical tipping point for cloud datacenters, networks and cutting-edge deployments,” said Intel’s vice president. and GM of IO Memory and Technology, Carolyn Duran, in a statement.
Due to supply and demand problems, the new RAM is expected to be launched with a price increase of 30 to 40% before stabilizing, Bloomberg reported.