Understanding the differences between enterprise and client SSDs Solid State Drives have replaced HDDs, particularly in enterprise environments, but they come in different classes. TechRadar · Mar 19, 2025
What is AMD EXPO? The RAM technology explained in 2025 TechRadar explains AMD EXPO, the company's RAM overclocking technology in detail TechRadar · Mar 16, 2025
What is XMP? The Intel RAM technology explained TechRadar explains XMP, Intel's RAM technology, how it works, and if you should use it in 2025 TechRadar · Mar 15, 2025
Samsung extends LPDDR5 to 12.7 GT/s: Next-gen devices enjoy a nice speed boost Samsung unveils 16Gb LPDDR5-Ultra-Pro DRAM at 12,700 MT/s with 4-phase self-calibration and AC-coupled transceiver equalization. Tom’s Hardware · Feb 21, 2025
A $100bn tech company you've probably never heard of is teaming up with the world's biggest memory manufacturers to produce supercharged HBM $100bn tech company is teaming up with the world's biggest memory manufacturers to produce supercharged HBM. TechRadar · Dec 23, 2024
Micron launches DDR5-6400 CUDIMMs and CSODIMMs for Intel Core Ultra 200S CPUs — DDR5-6400 kits up to 32GB capacity with C52 timings Micron expands the company's memory portfolio with new Crucial CUDIMMs and CSODIMMs that run at DDR5-6400. Tom’s Hardware · Oct 15, 2024
Intel Launches Granite Rapids Xeon 6900P series with 128 cores — matches AMD EPYC’s core counts for the first time since 2017 Intel announced the on-time launch of its high-performance Xen 6 ‘Granite Rapids’ 6900P-series models today. Five new models, spanning from 72 cores up to 128 cores, finally exceeded the core counts of AMD’s existing EPYC models for the first time since 2017. Tom’s Hardware · Sep 24, 2024
Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake CPUs could support up to 10,000 MT/s DDR5 CUDIMM RAM, but that'll be using the Gear 2 setting which is pretty rubbish for gaming Whether great for gaming or not, memory with speeds in the tens of thousands is exciting. PC Gamer · Sep 18, 2024
Rambus announces HBM4 memory controller for AI GPUs — controller enables up to of 2.56 TB/s per HBM4 memory stack across a 2048-bit memory bus Rambus's HBM4 controller has a lot of performance headroom, but will it ever be used? Tom’s Hardware · Sep 10, 2024
G.Skill Intros Low Latency DDR5 Memory Modules: CL30 at 6400 MT/s G.Skill on Tuesday introduced its ultra-low-latency DDR5-6400 memory modules that feature a CAS latency of 30 clocks, which appears to be the industry's most aggressive timings yet for DDR5-6400 sticks. The modules will be available for both AMD and Intel CPU-based systems. With every new generation of DDR memory comes… AnandTech · Aug 13, 2024
Solidigm D7-PS1010 and D7-PS1030: PCIe 5.0 and 176L TLC Datacenter SSD Performance Play Solidigm's datacenter SSD lineup includes models targeting different performance, endurance, and cost tradeoffs. Last year, the company had introduced the D5-P5336 QLC drive as a low-cost high-capacity drive for read-heavy workloads, while also preparing the SLC-based D7-P5810 for extremely write-intensive workloads requiring high endurance. The D7-P5520 / D7-P5620 Gen 4… AnandTech · Aug 6, 2024
JEDEC Plans LPDDR6-Based CAMM, DDR5 MRDIMM Specifications Following a relative lull in the desktop memory industry in the previous decade, the past few years have seen a flurry of new memory standards and form factors enter development. Joining the traditional DIMM/SO-DIMM form factors, we've seen the introduction of space-efficient DDR5 CAMM2s, their LPDDR5-based counterpart the LPCAMM2, and… AnandTech · Jul 23, 2024
JEDEC's new standards will double DDR5 bandwidth, enable faster memory for laptops — DDR5 MRDIMM and LPDDR6 standards for next-generation servers and laptops being ratified JEDEC plans to introduce multiplexed memory to double the bandwidth of current DDR5 RDIMMs on servers and data centers. It's also working on adding LPDDR6 to CAMM2 for laptops. Tom’s Hardware · Jul 23, 2024
Mr. DIMM, why do you have so many chips? Micron's new monstrous multi-rank memory doubles DDR5 speed to 8,800 MT/s Are memory companies looking for new ways to increase bandwidth to capitalise on the AI boom? PC Gamer · Jul 18, 2024
AnandTech · Jul 16, 2024 Micron Expands Datacenter DRAM Portfolio with MR-DIMMs The compute market has always been hungry for memory bandwidth, particularly for high-performance applications in servers and datacenters. In recent years, the explosion in core counts per socket has further accentuated this need. Despite progress in DDR speeds, the available bandwidth per core has unfortunately not seen a corresponding scaling.…
Tom’s Hardware · Jul 12, 2024 Preliminary HBM4 specs point to major performance uplift for GPUs — transfer speeds up to 6.4 GT/s across a 2048-bit interface JEDEC publishes initial specifications for HBM4: up to 1.64 TB/s per stack, loads of configurations.
AnandTech · Jun 21, 2024 CUDIMM Standard Set to Make Desktop Memory a Bit Smarter and a Lot More Robust While the new CAMM and LPCAMM memory modules for laptops have garnered a great deal of attention in recent months, it's not just the mobile side of the PC memory industry that is looking at changes. The desktop memory market is also coming due for some upgrades to further improve…
AnandTech · Jun 11, 2024 SK hynix: GDDR7 Mass Production To Start in Q4'2024 Update 06/13: SK hynix has sent a note to AnandTech clarifying that the company "plans to start mass production of GDDR7 in the fourth quarter of this year when the relevant market opens up." This article has been updated accordingly. Being a major JEDEC memory standard, GDDR7 is slated to…
AnandTech · Jun 7, 2024 Micron's GDDR7 Chip Smiles for the Camera as Micron Aims to Seize Larger Share of HBM Market UPDATE 6/12: Micron notified us that it expects its HBM market share to rise to mid-20% in the middle of calendar 2025, not in the middle of fiscal 2025. For Computex week, Micron was at the show in force in order to talk about its latest products across the memory…
Tom’s Hardware · May 23, 2024 MSI delivers first motherboard with CAMM2 memory — Z790 Project Zero brings new RAM standard to desktops MSI's new Project Zero motherboard is equipped with a CAMM2 memory module. The new motherboard will be shown off at Computex 2024 sporting Kingston Fury CAMM2 memory.
PC Gamer · May 22, 2024 DDR6 looks set to double data speeds over DDR5, with DDR6-21000 being the ultimate target Development is still ongoing so don't expect to see it any time soon, though.
Tom’s Hardware · May 7, 2024 Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 7 is the world's first laptop to sport LPCAMM2 memory — more compact, higher performance, lower power Lenovo announces the Thinkpad P1 Gen 7 featuring Micron LPCAMM2 LPDDR5X memory, making it the world's first laptop to use CAMM2 style system memory.
PC Gamer · Apr 23, 2024 DDR5-10000 memory is closer than ever after JEDEC, the managing body of the standard, extends the base DDR5 spec Let's see what those next-gen CPUs are capable of.
AnandTech · Apr 22, 2024 JEDEC Extends DDR5 Memory Specification to 8800 MT/s, Adds Anti-Rowhammer Features When JEDEC released its DDR5 specification (JESD79) back in 2020, the standard setting organization defined precise specs for modules with speed bins of up to 6400 MT/s, while leaving the spec open to further expansions with faster memory as technology progressed. Now, a bit more than three-and-a-half years later, and…
AnandTech · Apr 12, 2024 Corsair Enters Workstation Memory Market with WS Series XMP/EXPO DDR5 RDIMMs Corsair has introduced a family of registered memory modules with ECC that are designed for AMD's Ryzen Threadripper 7000 and Intel's Xeon W-2400/3400-series processors. The new Corsair WS DDR5 RDIMMs with AMD EXPO and Intel XMP 3.0 profiles will be available in kits of up to 256 GB capacity and…