Chiplets are gaining significant traction as they provide compelling benefits for advancing semiconductor performance, costs, and time to market. With Moore’s Law slowing, building more powerful chips translates into building bigger chips. But with chip dimensions pushing up against reticle limits, growing the size of chips is increasingly impractical. Chiplets offer a new path forward by disaggregating large monolithic integrated circuits (ICs) into smaller pieces that can be harnessed together in a system-in-package (SiP).
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Feast your eyes on the first DDR5 memory modules
Three years after the computer industry promised to double the speed of the world’s computer memory with the DDR5 spec, it’s finally nearly almost here. SK Hynix has officially announced the world’s first DDR5 memory modules. The company tells The Verge it expected to start selling them in Q3 2021, but they’re ready whenever systems can support them.
SK hynix launches first DDR5 DRAM
SK hynix has announced the launch of the world’s first DDR5 DRAM, optimised for Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) as a next generation standard of DRAM.
5G Network Infrastructure to Drive Memory Diversity
For consumers, 5G brings with it the potential of a better user experience on smartphones, but its influence on memory uptake won’t be at the device level.
Handset makers will continue to add more DRAM and flash storage to smartphones regardless of network connections. The memory in 5G network infrastructure will be even more diverse given the many use cases for the next generation of mobile networking.
World’s first DDR5 DRAM module has focus on power
The DDR5 memory module is supports transfer rate of 4.8 to 5.6Gbit/s, 1.8 times faster than the previous generation, at 1.1V rather than 1.2V. This reduces the power consumption by 20 percent, which is key for data centre applications, and integrates the power management IC (PMIC) into the module for the first time.
SK Hynix Launches World’s First DDR5 DRAM Modules Rated At 4.8 Gbps And Beyond
Back in July, JEDEC finalized the specifications for DDR5 memory, and laid out a number of key performance advantages over DDR4 including quadrupling the maximum die density to 64Gb and boosting maximum data rates from 3.2Gbps to 6.4Gbps [official]. Today, SK Hynix has announced that it is launching the world’s very first DDR5 DRAM chips.