Writing for 24/7 Wall St, analyst Chris Lange notes that both ARM and Rambus license their respective architecture and designs to industry processor and memory industry players. “Rambus operates as an international technology solutions company. Its technology solutions include memory, chip interfaces and architectures, end-to-end security and advanced LED lighting,” Lange explains.
Memory + Interfaces
GeIL’s Super Luce is DDR4 eye candy
GeIL has announced its slick DDR4 Super Luce lineup. Boasting colors of white, red or blue, the kits are expected to range from DDR4-2666 MHz to DDR4-3400 MHz and up to 64GB capacity. “The principle behind these kits is that the top of the module can beat at five different rates, based on the temperature of a thermal sensor on the module,” writes Ian Cutress of AnandTech.
DRAM revenue increased 32% in 2014
Gartner analysts recently reported that worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $340.3 billion in 2014 – representing a 7.9 percent increase from 2013 revenue of $315.4 billion. According to Gartner research VP Andrew Norwood, the top 25 semiconductor vendors’ combined revenue increased 11.7 percent, which was more than the overall industry’s growth. More specifically, the top 25 vendors accounted for 72.4 percent of total market revenue, up from 69.9 percent in 2013.
Square Kilometre Array (SKA) targets the Big Bang
Currently under development, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will ultimately comprise an array of 3,000 individual radio telescopes.
According to ZDNet’s Nick Heath, the SKA will be tasked with gathering cosmic emissions in an attempt to “see” the universe a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, farther back in time than any telescope has (thus far) glimpsed.
ReRAM evolves for the IoT
Writing for Semiconductor Engineering, Ernest Worthman notes that next-generation IoT/E devices will face a plethora of power, footprint and electronic constraints. According to Steven Woo, VP of solutions marketing and distinguished inventor at Rambus, non-volatile memory (NVM) could very well play an important role in the IoE of the future.
Data centers eye next-gen memory options
Semiconductor Engineering editor in chief Ed Sperling recently noted that data center architecture has experienced very few radical changes since the commercial introduction of the IBM System/360 mainframe way back in 1964. “There have been incremental improvements in speed and throughput over the years, with a move to a client/server model in the 1990s, but from a high level this is still an environment where data is processed and stored centrally and accessed globally,” Sperling wrote.
