Rambus has officially confirmed that its R+™ DDR4/3 PHY was developed using Samsung’s 28nm LPP process. “Our ongoing collaboration with Samsung has yielded a robust, production-ready R+ DDR4/3 PHY on the power-performance optimized 28nm Low Power Plus (LPP) process,” Loren Shalinsky, a Strategic Development Director at Rambus, explained.
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Understanding the supply chain security conundrum
Writing for Semiconductor Engineering, Ernest Worthman describes the challenge of securing chips as a “foot race” between the good and bad guys. “Going forward, expect heavily funded, grouped efforts to place tremendous pressure on security envelopes,” Worthman explains.
Rambus ReRAM eyes mainstream adoption
Writing for Electronics 360 (IHS), Peter Clarke reports that Rambus has signed up customers for its metal-oxide based resistive RAM technology (ReRAM). “[For example, Rambus] signed an architectural license with Tezzaron Semiconductor Corp. (Naperville, Illinois), a supplier of 3D and 2.5D memory, memory subsystems and memory-intensive SOCs,” said Clarke.
Raspberry Pi 2 gets a memory boost
The Raspberry Pi 2 – which made its debut earlier this week – packs a 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor and 1GB of RAM (LPDDR2 SDRAM). Additional key specs include four USB ports, 40 GPIO pins, HDMI output, an Ethernet jack, 3.5mm audio jack and microSD card slot.
Video: Overclocked HyperX DDR4 hits 4351MHz
The HyperX division of Kingston Technology has confirmed that its Predator DDR4 memory was recently overclocked at a screaming 4351MHz. The impressive overclock mark – set by “Toppc” of MSI – was achieved using a single 4GB HyperX Predator 3333MHz DDR4 module on MSI’s new X99S XPOWER AC motherboard.
DDR4 deployment averts “thermal nightmare”
Writing for DataCenter Dynamics, Scott Fulton notes that recent benchmark results indicate DDR4 is at least partially, and perhaps wholly, responsible for performance gains in low-end and mid-tier servers. In addition, DDR4 may, at best, mitigate performance drop-offs in the high-end.
