Items tagged with jedec

by Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 28, 2022

HBM3 Specification Leaves HBM2E In The Dust With 819GB/s Of Bandwidth

At long last, there's an official and finalized specification for the next generation of High Bandwidth Memory. JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, the industry group that develops open standards for microelectronics, announced the publication of the HBM3 specification, which nearly doubles the bandwidth of... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Tue, Oct 06, 2020

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... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Thu, Jul 16, 2020

JEDEC Finalizes DDR5 Memory Spec: 6.4GB/s Speeds, Lower Voltage, And Increased Capacity

Although it’s a few years behind schedule, the final specifications for DDR5 memory have been released. The JESD79-5 DDR5 SDRAM standard was originally supposed to be released two years ago (2018), but now, new hardware based on the standard is expected to arrive in 2021 (late 2020 if we’re lucky). There are a... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Thu, Apr 02, 2020

SK Hynix DDR5 DRAM Mass Production Starts This Year, DDR5-8400 Modules On The Horizon

It's about that time again in the desktop market to switch to a new memory standard. We first began the transition from DDR3 to DDR4 six years ago, and now memory suppliers are laying the groundwork for the leap from DDR4 to DDR5. So, what kind of advantages will DDR5 offer over its predecessor? Well, SK Hynix is... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Fri, May 24, 2019

AMD Ryzen 3000 Zen 2 CPUs Rumored To Support JEDEC DDR4-3200 Memory Spec And Speed

The official introduction of AMD's Ryzen 3000 Zen 2 processors and the accompanying X570 chipset are just days away. We already know quite about the processors and supporting chipset courtesy of leaks, and today we're learning about official memory specs for the Ryzen 3000 desktop processor family. According to... Read more...

by Michael J. A. Sexton - Tue, Dec 18, 2018

JEDEC Updates High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) Standard To 24GB Per Stack At Blistering 307GBps

JEDEC announced an update to the the JESD235 memory standard that deals with the second generation of high bandwidth memory (HBM). This update brings two key feature enhancements to the standard. First, it raises the capacity limit for each device to 24GB, and it also raises the speed threshold to 307GB/s. If you... Read more...

by Rob Williams - Sat, Apr 01, 2017

Beastly Next-Gen DDR5 To Offer Twice The Bandwidth And Density Of DDR4 Memory

A mere month after DDR4 was introduced for the first time on an AMD platform (Ryzen), the memory guidance organization JEDEC has decided to reveal its plans for DDR5. That's right: nothing can stop the progression of technology. As soon as we have something fresh to enjoy, the next big thing is right around the... Read more...

by Ray Willington - Thu, Sep 27, 2012

JEDEC Lays Out DDR4 Memory Standard For Next-Gen Speedsters

Is the world okay as-is with just DDR2 and DDR3 memory? Perhaps. We could get by, yes, but what about pushing the envelope? What about faster, faster, faster? Well, it's about time for memory to take the next major leap in speed. JEDEC, a known name in the development of standards for the microelectronics industry, today announced the initial... Read more...