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DDR4 May Replace Mobile Memory For Less
Lucas123 writes "The upcoming shift from Double Data Rate 3 (DDR3) RAM to its successor, DDR4, will herald a significant boost in both memory performance and capacity for data center hardware and consumer products alike. Because of the greater density, 2X performance and lower cost, the upcoming specification and products will for the first time mean DDR may be used in mobile devices instead of LPDDR. Today, mobile devices use low-power DDR (LPDDR) memory, the current iteration of which uses 1.2v of power. While the next generation of mobile memory, LPDDR3, will further reduce that power consumption (probably by 35% to 40%), it will also likely cost 40% more than DDR4 memory."
1.2V of power??!! This is supposed to be news for nerds. Nerds should know the difference between voltage and power.
If DDR4 is really as power-saving as they say, AMD will be competitive simply by adapting it (more than they already are). At the low-power end, especially low-cost low-power, AMD is pretty competitive with Intel already. If they can push out server DDR4 compatible products first, they could stand to gain quite a lot (Intel isn't planning on offering DDR4 till 2014, so AMD has a year and a half).
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Ya know I just have to laugh at statements like yours because while the reviewers haven't liked AMD that hasn't stopped the OEMs from gobbling up every chip they can handle. hell AMD had to slow down their desktop lines just to give more room to mobile because they kept running out! Take the Bobcats, they haven't had an update in awhile yet the OEMs are slapping them into everything from netbooks to laptops to all-in-ones as fast as they can get them, same with llano. Even the lower end Bulldozers have been selling quite briskly and the reviewers couldn't stand that chip!
What thing AMD does seem to get is to coin a phrase "Its the GPU stupid". I mean what does the average person DO with their machine? FB, webmail, YouTube videos and movies. Is there a single job on that list that even the lowest bobcat can't do? Nope. Hell I recommended to my dad to get his GF a little Acer with the C60 chip in it which is just a 1Ghz dual core with turbo and she can't stop gushing about the thing! it plays her FB games, let's her chat anywhere without being tied to the cords, she is just tickled to death with it.
While DDR 4 may give the integrated GPUs in AMD chips a little speed boost frankly they haven't been having too much trouble selling them or having them run pretty much anything you want. Don't take my word for it, look up the Youtube videos on chips like the E350 where they are playing Crysis on it. I have 8Gb of DDR 3 in mine which gives the GPU 1200Mb of system memory and while i don't often game on it i can say that the little E350 stays cool to the touch even after hours of HD video or office work.
So I don't think you have to worry about AMD friend, once they have gotten rid of the last of their stake in GloFlo they should be doing quite well with Piledriver and Bobcat II. The RAM in TFA will give it a free speed boost but the only ones who seem to care about such things are the reviewers. For everybody else as long as it does the tasks they have with good battery life they'll be quite happy.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.