Bye, Bye DDR?

[donrussell]

Looks like quad-data-rate RAM may be coming soon.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/18118.html

 

[Shmorq]

Does Rambus allegedly have a patent on this as well?

 

[A12I]

those one was similar to RDRAM (RamBus), Buddy!

 

[Ozzman1113]

can you spell high latency?

 

[Zer]

Very silly.

I could say, "Bye bye, 2 GHz CPUs!" because 4 GHz ones will be out only a year or two later.
That doesn't make the technology any less worth having for the present. What is good NOW is not always good in the future. This doesn't nullify it as a good technology for the present.

 

[donrussell]

Disagree with the term "silly". Since this memory is supposed to be available in Q4, and since now in Q2 DDR motherboards are just becoming available, it could be that DDR will have a small "window of opportunity" to become popular. IF (a big if) this memory becomes available on schedule and at a reasonable price and if new motherboards are available to use it, and if it provides a noticeable performance increase over DDR, it's possible that DDR will fade into the sunset next year.

 

[AdamK47]

I think your interpreting the article wrong. They?re trying to get the SRAM technology available by the 4th Quarter of this year. This technology doesn't even have a standard for PC implementation yet. Devoloping the technology for use in a personal computer can take the logest of time. Look back on when the DDR technology was developed. You can trace that back to almost three years ago. QDR SRAM is still in the developmental stages for the PC. It hasn't even evolved past that. Once the standards have been set, then you also have to wait for chipsets to be developed to support it. It's far more complex than what the article portrays.

 

[AdamK47]

Also remember that SRAM is not only used in PCs. As the article says it will be used in other applicational purposes such as switches and routers. They said it will be available by the 4th quarter, but doesn't mention what form. They never implied the personal computer.

 

[Dulanic]

It will hit video cards long before it hits desktops.

 

[mercutio11]

Linkfied

 

[bpt8056]

AdamK47 is right...I remembered reading an article talking about DDR SDRAM a few years ago in PC World and the technology took so long to get to the desktop market. QDR won't be here for a while....not when the economy is slowing down. It really does takes time for companies to adapt to new technologies.