A recent report issued by DRAMeXchange confirms that mobile memory accounted for 36 percent of overall DRAM production this year and is likely to surpass 40 percent of production in 2015.
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China’s DRAM consumption hit $10.2 billion in 2014
DRAMeXchange recently reported that nearly 5 billion DRAM chips from the 2GB category have been consumed in China, accounting for 19.2% of the world’s total DRAM output.
Building power conscious data centers
Writing for EnterpriseTech, George Leopold notes that data center energy consumption will only continue to increase in the near future – even as regulators attempt to rein in carbon emissions at coal-fired plants tasked with producing much of the electricity used to operate and cool data centers.
Doubling DRAM performance with conventional memory
Writing for SemiconductorEngineering, Ed Sperling reports that long-awaited DDR4 rollouts have begun. Indeed, a slew of consumer-centric motherboards packing Intel’s X99 chipset and DDR4 memory were reviewed by AnandTech’s Ian Cutress in late September.
In addition, a number of companies recently introduced a range of servers powered by Intel’s new 18-core Xeon E5-2600 v3 (Grantley) chip. The servers – designed by Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo and IBM – are loaded with DDR4 memory.
DRAM leads all semiconductors in 2014
Worldwide semiconductor revenue remains on track to reach $338 billion in 2014, a 7.2 percent increase from 2013, and up from the previous quarter’s forecast of 6.7 percent growth. According to Gartner analysts, DRAM leads all semiconductors in 2014 with revenue growth of 26.3 percent – and is expected to reach all-time revenue high of $44.1 billion for the year.
Intel’s X99 chipset accelerates DDR4 adoption
In September, a number of industry heavyweights introduced a range of servers powered by Intel’s recently launched 18-core Xeon E5-2600 v3 (Grantley) chip. The servers – debuted by Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo and IBM – are the very first to pack DDR4 memory.
Loren Shalinsky, a Strategic Development Director at Rambus, confirmed that the pairing of DDR4 with Intel’s Grantley chips marked the start of DDR4’s wider deployment in the market. It should be noted that DDR4 delivers a 40 percent to 50 percent increase in bandwidth, as well as a 35 percent reduction in power consumption compared to DDR3 memory currently in servers.