Written by Nicolas Gridelet
Published on August 12, 2008

URL: http://www.behardware.com/news/lire/12-08-2008/#9877

The Japanese memory manufacturer Elpida has just announced that it has developed the first PC3-20000/DDR3-2500 128 MB chips. What's more they can run at a normal 2.5Gbps at 1.5V (or even 1.2V for DDR3-1800) whereas at the moment it's generally not possible to find better than PC3-17000/DDR3-2133 at 2.0V or higher.

In order to achieve these levels of performance Elpida uses copper interconnect technology instead of aluminium, which improves conductivity. Sample shipments are expected to begin by the end of August and the manufacturer has already announced smaller chip structures which will allow it to produce even faster chips. It remains to be seen what the latency will be and above all, what the chip modules will be priced at...