DDR4 May Replace Mobile Memory For Less 145
Lucas123 writes "The upcoming shift from Double Data Rate 3 (DDR3) RAM to its successor, DDR4, will herald a significant boost in both memory performance and capacity for data center hardware and consumer products alike. Because of the greater density, 2X performance and lower cost, the upcoming specification and products will for the first time mean DDR may be used in mobile devices instead of LPDDR. Today, mobile devices use low-power DDR (LPDDR) memory, the current iteration of which uses 1.2v of power. While the next generation of mobile memory, LPDDR3, will further reduce that power consumption (probably by 35% to 40%), it will also likely cost 40% more than DDR4 memory."
Excellent (Score:4, Funny)
With RAM that fast and cheap, 640kB ought to be enough for anyone!
Whoops, I mean 6.40 x 10^7 kB. THAT ought to do it.
Re:Spec water-torture (Score:5, Funny)
Yep, it makes you wonder why we bothered with old technology at all. Why didn't we start using today's computers fifty years ago? Think of all the time and effort it would have saved!
from the not-dance-dance-revolution dept. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:1.2V of power? (Score:5, Funny)
there is no difference between voltage and power.
P = V * I
For the purpose of illustration, lets make:
P = pain
V = hardness of slap
I = number of slaps
I'm happy to keep V fixed but increase I until it starts to matter to you too.