Archived News
June 2007
PUBLICATION OF JEDEC DDR3 SDRAM STANDARD
New Freescale Flexis Microcontrollers for 8- and 32-bit architectures
PICMG forms Rugged MicroTCA subcommittee
Freescale and Tundra Semiconductor Introduce AMC single-width form factor Development Platform Enabled by RapidIO®
Intel now offering memory scrubbing technology called Double Device Data Correction (DDDC).
IBM patents external DRAM box.
The SCOPE Alliance Releases Its AMC Port Map Gap-Analysis v1.0
SoC SDRAM memory subsystem reference design from Sonics and Synopsys
May 2007
So, What Was That Memory Technology Again?
AMD Releases Expanded Tools and Support for Developers using Multi-Core AMD64 Systems
32bit OS going EOL: Vista will be the last version of Windows for Pentium 4 and Core Duo owners
Intel releases Turbo Memory (previously codenamed Robson)
AMD Chooses High-Speed DDR2-1066 over DDR3 for this year with new Quad-Core Desktop Chips
Micron prepares DDR2-1066 (PC2-8500) DRAM using 78nm process
Top 50 semiconductor sales leaders
Hynix is 1st to receive Intel validation on DDR3 DRAM
April 2007
The high power consumption of DRAM memory in servers
SanDisk & Qimonda create joint venture to make flash-DRAM multichip packaging (MCP) for mobile storage
Microchip Technology receives top position for 8-bit microcontrollers
Ferroelectric FRAM memory chips now reach 2Mbit capacity
IDT Unveils Its Low-Power AMB for FBDIMMs
Samsung develops 4GB DDR2 DIMM via new stacking technology
Intel moves closer to flash and DRAM memory replacement phase-change technology
Micron intoduces low-power 1.5v DDR2 DRAMs
Zero-Capacitor DRAM memory technology for Systems-on-Chip (SoC)
SST Redefines Memory Subsystem in Embedded and Mobile Applications with All-in-OneMemory Solutions
Intel and AMD spotlight embedded offerings
PICMG adds Ethernet fabric to Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC)
Read More…Hynix Develops High Speed Mobile DRAM with ECC
Elpida joins IMEC to develop nanoelectronics beyond 50nm DRAM process generations.
EDNs outlook on memory
DRAM sales up in year-on-year growth in Jan07 at lower DRAM prices
Worldwide server shipments experience 9% growth in 2006
Industry panel discusses "keep-it-cool strategies " and thermal issues for chips, boards, systems.
AMD prepares for DDR3 support
AMD Barcelona quad-core Opteron processor vs Intel, Clovertown quad-core Xeon
Samsung goes into mass production of DDR2 1Gb DRAM using 60nm process
February 2007
IBM adds 48MB of DRAM to next-gen microprocessor using 45nm process available in 2008
STT-RAM - possible replacement for SRAM, DRAM and FLASH
Intel P35 Express desktop chipset (Bearlake) is first to support DDR3 DRAM on motherboards
IBM Sets Memory Chip Speed Record
Memory Makers lower DRAM prices
DRAM almost as fast as SRAM
Intel Chip 1 trillion calculations 80cores
Intel "Montevina" for 2008 features new chipsets, codenamed Cantiga for Robson SSDs
Samsung release Industry’s First Gigabit-density Mobile DRAM
AMD Moving In On Embedded Processor Market
DRAM still dominates as main memory for computers
Revenue Ranking of DRAM Component Vendors
Intel Tolapai SOC by the end of 2007 for embedded markets
Read More… January 2007
Hynix introduces DDR2 1Gbit DRAM die shrinks using 60nm process
Micron now shipping DDR2 512Mbit DRAM with copper interconnects
TI sampling a DDR3 Register/PLL chip which requires no PLL tuning for RDIMMs
Computers using DDR3 memory prepare to ship in 2007
Micron offers samples of DDR3 1Gbit DRAM at DDR3-800 and DDR3-1066
A new Hybrid Storage Alliance has been created to combine the benefits of Flash NAND caching with high capacity low cost HDDs for Intel Robson and Microsoft Vista technology.
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