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The good news has arrived for gamers and desktop users who want to shift to the new DDR4 memory, the wait will end by the third quarter of this year, 2014.
Michael Moreland, a worldwide product marketing manager at Crucial informed that the company expects to ship the new DDR4 memory for both servers and desktops around the same time in the third quarter. Although usually, new DDR memory is shipped for servers first, then they ship the product for desktops but then that trend has changed with the DDR4.
With DDR4, PCs will be faster and more power efficient. It would also provide 50 percent more memory bandwidth than the previous DDR and 35 percent more power savings.
They also expect, Moreland continued, that the DDR4 adoption will take place soon enough and that the parts, the boards, the accessories will be available for the customers. He also said that the motherboard makers have been improving and stepping up to add DDR4 support.
Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at Insight 64 also described the DDR4 memory saying that with it, computers will be more responsive which would mean that graphically intense games and high-end server applications which are bandwidth sensitive will have a better game play and would carry out tasks faster. He added, “As you go to more cores and higher clock frequencies, it’s all about bandwidth. [DDR4] is going to be in high-end servers and high-end PCs.”
For now, the Crucial’s DDR4 DIMM shipments will be distributed when Intel ships chips that support the new memory. Intel has already added DDR4 support to servers and enthusiast desktop processors, and Crucial’s DDR4 DIMMs will plug into those systems. Also, Grantley, Intel’s upcoming eight-to-16 core, Haswell-based Core Extreme Condition processors and Xeon server chips code will be DDR4 compatible.
Moreland also said that it would be safe to assume that initial DDR4 DIMMs could be priced at a premium. Because the memory industry is volume-sensitive, prices typically come down as adoption grows and more chips are produced. DDR4 is expected to completely replace DDR3.
As for laptops, it might take longer for DDR4 to be shipped. The shipments of Broadwell, a PC chip code which will succeed Haswell have already been delayed by a few quarters.
However, DDR4 memory could reach mobile devices before laptops. With a mobile chip called Snapdragon 810 from Qualcomm which boasts support for low-power DDR4 (LP-DDR4) will be the basis for the smart phones and tablets will be shipped in the first half of next year.
Reference: crucial com/usa/ en/memory-ddr4-info
