DDR4 RAM To Hit Devices Next Year

angry tapir writes "Micron has said that DDR4 memory — the successor to DDR3 DRAM — will reach computers next year, and that the company has started shipping samples of the upcoming DDR memory type. DDR4 is more power-efficient and faster than DDR3. New forms of DDR memory first make it into servers and desktops, and then into laptops. Micron said it hopes that DDR4 memory will also reach portable devices like tablets, which currently use forms of low-power DDR3 and DDR2 memory."

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Market forces

[roman_mir]

Ha, if the gov't decided it was going to be in business distributing computers 'fairly' and whatnot, you'd never see this sort of innovation. Where would we be? Still using Altairs, running MS basic on them? Nobody would have iPhones and iPads an laptops and normal desktops, the computers would still be size of a large box, with little improvement. They'd be subsidised, so the costs would be going up every year, nobody would be able actually to afford them except the very rich. Just like AT&T beige phones were rented and not sold, these computers also wouldn't be your property, they'd be property of the State or whatever monopoly that'd have the license.

Your taxes would go up year to year, just to ensure that every new kid gets this machine, the prices would always go up, of-course, not even in tune with normal gov't inflation, but instead the way prices go up where there is inflation and direct subsidy - there would be more and more laws created directing the use of computers and so more and more departments would have been added.

Obviously the work-force would have been completely unionised, so the cost cutting in work force wouldn't have been possible. Full pensions would be mandated, whatever else the gov't backed unions provide, excellent stuff. Too bad you'r hand held device would look like 3 large suitcases - 1 with the super-fast 2MHz computer, complete with a 80x12 ASCII screen and the other 2 suitcases would be filled with batteries.

We should all be thanking the lucky stars that the gov't didn't try to make computers 'affordable'. The bubble in computers would have been pretty big, maybe not as big as in housing though, but who knows.