News - ADATA and SK Hynix unveil DDR4 memory modules

[HEXUS]

ADATA launches 4, 8 and 16GB modules. SK Hynix unveils the world's first 128GB module.

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[nepenthes]

1 stick of 128gb of ram, dear god

Would be interested to see how much they cost on release date.

[flufflogic]

Just wait, these can apparently be expected to be twice as fast as DDR4. That means we're looking potentially at 128GB DDR4 4800MHz memory in the next couple of years...

[LSG501]

woohoo....ddr4 could be the start of 32GB (or more) ram on a mitx at a reasonable price.... those 128GB sticks are going to be VERY expensive lol

[shaithis]

and so the already high RAM prices start to rise............

[davidcrofter]

and so the already high RAM prices start to rise............

Great marketing though - DDR3 is being phased out so prices on that will rise from here on in and DDR4 will no doubt have quite a premium price to start with = win, win (for manufacturers/retailers.)

[OilSheikh]

DDR4 came out ?
Haold that thought, 128GB stick came out ?

[scaryjim]

DDR4 for servers is on both AMD and Intel's roadmaps for this year (iirc). All the products mentioned in this article are ECC/FB ECC, so server/workstation grade. Consumer non-ECC DDR4 is still a little way off yet, but once it's shipping in the server market it is just a matter of time before it's pushed into the consumer space. Although I suspect 128GB consumer modules might be a bit further off yet

Bottom line is that the server market tends to focus on capacity while the consumer market tends to focus on speed. I'd be surprised if we didn't see consumer modules at 3200MT/s available pretty much at consumer launch.

[Uchiha]

does anybody know whether core i5 or i7 support ddr4?

[YoloSwag]

does anybody know whether core i5 or i7 support ddr4?

The new Broadwell hopefully supports it - if that's what you're asking.

If you have current gen Haswell or lower processors (e.g i3/i5/i7 4XXX/3XXX or lower) it's definitely incompatible.

[shaithis]

I believe the upcoming Haswell-E will be the first with a DDR4 controller.

[LSG501]

I believe the upcoming Haswell-E will be the first with a DDR4 controller.

supposedly broadwell will support it too although there seems to be conflicting info on this....

[YoloSwag]

supposedly broadwell will support it too although there seems to be conflicting info on this....

Yeah, at first there was news about Broadwell coming out the same time or before Haswell-E then we got news that it didn't and had to be pushed back to either Q4 2014 or Q1 2015.
Secondly, I've read somewhere that Haswell-E may still be compatible with the same 2011 socket(???) but that's another thing altogether. The upcoming Haswell refresh doesn't support DDR4 either.
So I think the best chance of getting DDR4 support might be with Broadwell rather than Haswell-E...But hopefully Haswell-E comes out with it too

[directhex]

Yeah, at first there was news about Broadwell coming out the same time or before Haswell-E then we got news that it didn't and had to be pushed back to either Q4 2014 or Q1 2015.
Secondly, I've read somewhere that Haswell-E may still be compatible with the same 2011 socket(???) but that's another thing altogether. The upcoming Haswell refresh doesn't support DDR4 either.
So I think the best chance of getting DDR4 support might be with Broadwell rather than Haswell-E...But hopefully Haswell-E comes out with it too

It's a new, incompatible socket. With 2011 pins. Handy!

[mack_5991]

Early adopters of DDR4 are going to be spending quite a lot it seems. maybe DDR3 prices might go down finally *sigh*

[xslavic]

the good part is that in 2020 we would afford a system based on the 128gb ddr4 4800mhz