Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the malloc(way-to-much) dept.
An anonymous reader wrote in to say
"There is a story about 1 Gigabyte RAM-Modules from Samsung. Samsung finished development, shipping is due. They are going to use a 0.13-micron process. The article is in German, use Babelfish. "
Bits vs. Bytes, Chips vs. Modules
by
jurgen
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· Score: 3
The article talks about a 1 GigaBIT chip. Modern dynamic RAM is always meassured in bits because the chips are bit-addressable and do not usually store a complete byte... instead, if you have 8 chips on a module, for example, of every byte one bit is stored in each chip. This news is remarkable for several reasons. One, currently the largest chips are 256Mb (lowercase b for bits) and two, they are using an 0.13 micron process, down from 0.18, which means they can get more chips out of a wafer and therefor prices will go down again. In other words, good news, Moore's law holds again, yawn.
Here's an excerpt from the Korea Times article. Samsung says it will save about $4B on the smaller chip size:
Samsung Electronics yesterday announced it has developed the world's first 1GB DDR SDRAM (double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory) chip.
DDR is an improvement on traditional synchronous memory devices including DRAMs, graphics, and SRAMs.
Samsung's newly developed DDR operates at a data processing speed of 350MHz, a technical breakthrough which brings enhanced SDRAM to the server, workstation and data communications system markets.
The high-value-added product, which is worth about 3.48 million won per gram, is expected to be used for remote conferences, high-definition TV, satellite communications and e-money.
DDR was developed as the next-generation SDRAM, which meets the evolutionary system bandwidth requirements in a cost-effective manner.
Samsung's 1GB DDR product is equivalent to four 256MB DRAMs in terms of memory capacity, with the capability of storing the equivalent of 8,000 newspaper pages.
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"If we have to go on with these damned quantum jumps, then I'm sorry that I ever got involved" - Erwin Schrodinger
Ich liebe die Babelfische.
by
HP+LoveJet
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· Score: 2
I love Babelfi.
It is amazing, as fast it compact, idiomatische Prosa in each possible language too farcical pseudo satire in any different one to make can.
I assume that it is remarkable that the bear Waltzes at all and that I look a gift horse in the opening, but she is still of the translation automated by the old vodka/meatfiasco from the early days reminding.
I remember them well (especially the 4 Meg card I had with ONE bad chip somewhere on it). Of course, the driver was for the bank switching for EMM.
The real pain was trying to get a fast scanner driver to use the EMM efficiently, and to make it co-exist with a KoFax card.
Just in time for win2k & Office 2K!
by
CodemonkeyUK
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· Score: 2
Just think of all those wonderful features that the excellent Microsoft Corporation can add to their operating systems and "productivity" suites when everybody has 512 gigabytes of ram!
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The article talks about a 1 GigaBIT chip. Modern dynamic RAM is always meassured in bits because the chips are bit-addressable and do not usually store a complete byte... instead, if you have 8 chips on a module, for example, of every byte one bit is stored in each chip. This news is remarkable for several reasons. One, currently the largest chips are 256Mb (lowercase b for bits) and two, they are using an 0.13 micron process, down from 0.18, which means they can get more chips out of a wafer and therefor prices will go down again. In other words, good news, Moore's law holds again, yawn.
Here's an excerpt from the Korea Times article. Samsung says it will save about $4B on the smaller chip size:
Samsung Electronics yesterday announced it has developed the
world's first 1GB DDR SDRAM (double data rate synchronous
dynamic random access memory) chip.
DDR is an improvement on traditional synchronous memory devices
including DRAMs, graphics, and SRAMs.
Samsung's newly developed DDR operates at a data processing
speed of 350MHz, a technical breakthrough which brings enhanced
SDRAM to the server, workstation and data communications system
markets.
The high-value-added product, which is worth about 3.48 million won
per gram, is expected to be used for remote conferences,
high-definition TV, satellite communications and e-money.
DDR was developed as the next-generation SDRAM, which meets
the evolutionary system bandwidth requirements in a cost-effective
manner.
Samsung's 1GB DDR product is equivalent to four 256MB DRAMs
in terms of memory capacity, with the capability of storing the
equivalent of 8,000 newspaper pages.
---- "If we have to go on with these damned quantum jumps, then I'm sorry that I ever got involved" - Erwin Schrodinger
I love Babelfi.
It is amazing, as fast it compact, idiomatische Prosa in each possible language too farcical pseudo satire in any different one to make can.
I assume that it is remarkable that the bear Waltzes at all and that I look a gift horse in the opening, but she is still of the translation automated by the old vodka/meatfiasco from the early days reminding.
spawn_of_yog_sothoth
I remember them well (especially the 4 Meg card I had with ONE bad chip somewhere on it). Of course, the driver was for the bank switching for EMM.
The real pain was trying to get a fast scanner driver to use the EMM efficiently, and to make it co-exist with a KoFax card.
Just think of all those wonderful features that the excellent Microsoft Corporation can add to their operating systems and "productivity" suites when everybody has 512 gigabytes of ram!
I can't wait!