A number of new servers powered by Intel’s recently launched 18-core Xeon E5-2600 v3 (Grantley) chip were announced at IDF 2014. AsIDG’s Agam Shah notes, the servers, debuted by Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo and IBM, are the very first to pack DDR4 memory.
Memory + Interfaces
PHY interoperability highlights industry collaboration
Northwest Logic – a provider of high quality IP cores – is a member of Rambus’ rapidly expanding Partner Program. Recently, the two companies successfully validated interoperability of the Rambus R+™ DDR4/3 PHY with Northwest’s DDR4/3 SDRAM Controller Core.
Shrinking nanometers with Rambus and Globalfoundries
Globalfoundries – which operates a total of 8 semiconductor fabrication facilities across the globe – has a long history of collaborating with Rambus on a wide variety of projects.
DRAM DNA: From consoles to smartphones
One can’t help but stare nostalgically at the three game consoles prominently displayed at the entrance of Rambus HQ in Sunnyvale, California. Packed with various flavors of Rambus memory, the Nintendo 64, Sony Playstation® 2 (PS2) and Playstation® 3 (PS3) were responsible for defining a new generation of consoles and significantly raising the performance bar for future gaming systems.
Thoughts from the Flash Memory Summit 2013
It’s an exciting time to be in the memory business. Every decade or so, a set of technologies mature at the same time, leading to