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DRAM Makers Present DDR400
DRAM companies have been announcing chips and modules compliant with the double data rate 400Mbits/sec (DDR400) specification. Among the chip manufacturers with DDR400 products are Germanys Infineon Technologies, South Koreas Samsung and Hynix and Japans Elpida (former joint venture of NEC and Hitachi).
DRAM companies have been announcing chips and modules compliant with the double data rate 400Mbits/sec (DDR400) specification. Among the chip manufacturers with DDR400 products are Germanys Infineon Technologies, South Koreas Samsung and Hynix and Japans Elpida (former joint venture of NEC and Hitachi).
DDR400 is supported by Intels coming Springdale chipset with an 800MHz front side bus architecture.
Modules have been validated as compliant with Intel specifications and designed to meet the requirements of the proposed JEDEC PC3200 3.2Gbyte/sec bandwidth specification for use in the main memory of high-performance desktop PCs and workstations.
Infineons products have been built in its 0.14micron process running in full production volume throughout the company's 300mm and 200mm DRAM fab cluster. PC3200 DIMMs and memory chips from Infineon are available now. Samsung used its 0.13micron process with volume production begun in Q4 2002. Elpida has samples available now with volume scheduled for April 2003.