Items tagged with memory
Just in case anyone needs to hear it again (as if!), we're in the midst of a memory crisis that has seen the cost of DRAM catapult to unsettling levels. And lest there be any doubt as to what/who the culprit is, G.Skill issued a statement...
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Have you looked at the price of RAM lately? Retail prices for desktop DDR5 memory kits are three to five times what they were just a month ago. Building a PC has gone from "your GPU should be the most expensive component" to "make sure to...
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Framework is on a mission to change the status quo when it comes to laptops, having introduced several modular models with replaceable parts that go beyond the DIY boundaries of what is typical for a laptop. Be that as it may, Framework is...
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The ongoing memory shortage and resulting price hikes continue to impact various markets, and according to TrendForce, smartphone, notebook, and console manufacturers, are about to react. The impact won't simply trigger price increases in existing products, either—rather, new devices are...
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Thanks to an AI arms race, PC memory prices have gotten out of control in the past several months (and also pushed Crucial out of the consumer market), but is a motherboard with slots for both DDR5 and DDR4 modules really the answer?...
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Memory prices have skyrocketed recently and brick-and-mortar retailers are converting to "spot pricing" or "market pricing" for RAM kits, which means pricing is determined at the point of sale based on current market conditions. The most...
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Talk about a literally cold move. Barely a week after Patriot Memory and Gigabyte tag teamed a DDR5 world overclocking record at 13,211.4 MT/s (6,605.7 MHz), G.Skill and ASUS said, 'Hold our beer' and stole the speed crown in collaboration...
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DDR5 memory runs objectively high transfer rates; JEDEC specs go as high as 6.4 Gbps, and overclockers have taken DDR5 beyond the fastest LPDDR5X: all the way to over 13 Gbps. At these speeds, signal integrity becomes a first-order...
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One thing that's often said in sports is that records are meant to be broken. That applies to the sport of overclocking, and to that end, Patriot Memory's Viper Xtreme 5 DDR5 memory just set a validated memory frequency record, with...
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Micron is laying claim to the largest-capacity SOCAMM2 modules on the planet with its new 192GB product, which it has begun sampling to customers. According to Micron, "unprecedented AI innovation and growth" is fueling the need for...
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Memory performance is a critically overlooked part of system performance among client users, especially gamers, and the reason is because memory overclocking is both tedious and risky, as it can produce silent data corruption even if an...
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The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has pushed unprecedented demand for data center hardware, both in terms of graphics chips capable of powering large language models and large-scale data analytics (among many other tasks) , and...
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Micron is taking its Crucial LPCAMM2 memory modules to new heights in terms of speed. Designed for thin, high performance laptops, LPCAMM2 (Low-Power Compression-Attached Memory Module 2) is a relatively new form factor in the realm of...
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Up until now, the hyper-focused mantra by hardware makers has been to 'RGB all the things!', and they've been doing exactly that. They're still doing it, of course, but they're also pivoting to putting built-in displays on all the things...
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Speeds for DDR5 memory have been increasing to dizzying heights, especially after the introduction of CU-DIMMs. Desktop motherboard makers are always trying to outdo each other, and one particular battle of inches is about memory speeds...
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The U.S. government increased technology export restrictions into China today, in a move that delivered crushing blow to Korean manufacturers Samsung and SK Hynix. The restrictions specifically affect production of memory (DRAM) and...
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During a recent earnings call, memory maker SK hynix confirmed that it is preparing bigger-capacity GDDR7 memory chips for future GPU launches. Specifically, the company is readying 24-gigabit (Gb)-based GDDR7 memory chips, or 3 gigabytes...
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As G.Skill is prone to do from time to time, the memory maker is laying claim to another overclocking world record for the fastest DDR5 memory frequency ever achieved, this time with the help of bl4ckdot, a seasoned professional...
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JEDEC, the standards body responsible for defining how much of our digital world communicates behind the scenes, has just rolled out the specs for LPDDR6 memory. This next-gen RAM is aimed squarely at high-performance, power-sensitive...
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G.Skill is serving up some beefy new memory kits to retail and in doing so, the memory maker is laying claim to the first 256GB DDR5 UDIMM kit to feature 64GB modules at 6,000MHz. They're not just to keep Chrome satiated, either. The new...
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Before it's all said and down, a memory maker is going to release a DDR5-10000 kit to retail. There's a good chance it will be G.Skill (it's already overclocked RAM well past that mark). That day is not today, though G.Skill is showing off...
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In the endless race for smaller and thinner devices, every micrometer counts. That's why device manufacturers are likely excited for Micron's latest LPDDR5X memory, which is 14% shorter than the last generation. For our part, though, we're...
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