Samsung set to release single 10nm 256 GB DDR4 RAM

By 10 nm manufacturing process, Samsung set to pack 256 GB or RAM on a single part. A viable alternative to Intel’s Optane and 3DXPoint technology. The 256 GB RAM modules are only available for servers at present and maybe soon they will hit the mainstream markets.

There is never enough RAM for servers, Samsung has now prepared the hefty 256 GB module that should reduce the acquisition costs for enterprise clients. Samsung was able to fit that much RAM on a single stick thanks to the jump to its in-house 10 nm manufacturing process. Because the 10 nm stepping also reduces power requirements, Samsung managed to maintain the 1.2 V voltage per module, as required by JEDEC. Clocks for these modules are set at 2.66 GHz and the CAS latency was reduced to 19 ns. HEDT processors like AMD’s Threadripper series and Intel’s upcoming Cascade Lake already support up to 2 TB of memory, but no mainstream motherboard can accommodate more than 128 GB at the moment. There is no word on pricing for any of these new modules.  Mainstream desktop and laptop PCs nowadays pack at most 32 GB of RAM, while the standard is still 16 GB and has remained the same for around 3-4 years now.

Source(s): Samsung

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