Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Toshiba begins testing XDR DRAM

Teachworld.com reports:

Toshiba is lining up the world's fasters memory chips. Testing has begun and they should be on sale in the second half the year, the company said. . .

The 512MB XDR (extreme data rate) DRAM chips run at 4.8GHz -
about 12 times faster than typical desktop PC memory. . .

Elpida is sampling XDR memory at 6.4Gbit/s, half the Toshiba and Samsung speed. "Yes, it looks like Toshiba's is the first... and yes, it's the fastest," Kim said. "But Samsung and Elpida have similar schedules."

Read the article by Paul Kallender, IDG News Service and Chris Mellor, Techworld here.

Hat tip to FinzToRite of the Pinehurst Thread for the link.

Gizmodo.com notes the news as well. Read it here.

Hat to to blogan.net for the link.

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