Cadence, Micron to Begin DDR5 RAM Production by 2019's End

[Lucian Armasu]

Cadence and Micron plan to start producing 16 Gbit DDR5 RAM modules by the end of 2019.

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[BulkZerker]

Good let's wish Micron luck in yanking the carpet out from under Samsung when the new standard appears.

 

[Lucky_SLS]

Faster ryzen, yay!

 

[InvalidError]

Faster ryzen, yay!

I'd hope that AMD will have mostly decoupled CPU performance from memory frequency by the time DDR5 becomes mainstream, preferably as soon as Ryzen 3 next year to improve its competitive situation against Intel's CPUs which are far less sensitive to memory clock. A $30 cheaper Ryzen CPU does you little good if you need to spend $40 more on faster RAM to match Intel's performance.

 

[Lucky_SLS]

As long as we see the infinity fabric as the expressway in zen uarch, that's not gonna change I believe...

 

[hannibal]

AMD use ddr4 at least untill 2020, so 2021 we may see Ryzen with ddr5 memory support. So it may be Ryzen4 by then.
But yeah! New memory standard is good. Older memory will/may get cheaper for short period of time!