People are sometimes surprised when I tell them that more than $40 Billion of DRAM chips are sold every year – but have you ever wondered where they all go?
Posted in DDR Controller, DDR4, DIMM, IP, Signal Integrity |
There was a huge technology announcement on 3D XPoint(tm) technology about 3 weeks ago – but without many details. I’m at the IDF2015 conference in San Francisco this week and we learned a lot more.
Posted in DDR Controller, DDR PHY, DDR4, DIMM, DRAM Industry, Uncategorized |
It’s been about 9 months since I blogged on Samsung’s public roadmap and the fact that it carried some 3D Stacked DDR4 Devices using Through Silicon Vias (TSVs). Time for a quick update…
Posted in DDR4, DIMM, DRAM Industry, Featured, Uncategorized |
I have written on the topic of Row Hammering in a White Paper I published last year (link here) but since it is in the spotlight recently I thought I’d dedicate a blog entry to it. I had never considered this to be a security hole until this morning.
Posted in DDR3, DDR4, DIMM, DRAM Industry, Signal Integrity, Uncategorized |
I’m thrilled to blog about our latest IP prototyping kits that allow much faster FPGA prototyping of your DDR designs. In the last few years I’ve seen our HAPS prototyping boxes at more and more of our customers, and people I’ve talked to really like the ability to do their software prototyping for their DDR IP on their desktops long before their SoCs are manufactured.
Posted in DDR Controller, DDR PHY, DDR3, DDR4, DIMM, LPDDR3 |
A good friend of mine alerted me that Dell’s latest product lines featuring DDR4 memory are scheduled to ship as early as next week. A quick summary:
Posted in DDR4, DIMM, DRAM Industry, Uncategorized |
Samsung has posted their DDR4 product guide on their website, and it gives us excellent insight into the direction that Samsung plans to go with DDR4 in the next few months with a lot of data that wasn’t previously publicly available.
Posted in DDR4, DIMM, DRAM Industry, Uncategorized |
Since last week’s announcement of Intel CPUs supporting DDR4, the first almost-announcement of a DDR4 machine by a major PC manufacturer that I have found is the Alienware Area-51 (Alienware is a Dell subsidiary). I say almost-announcement because at the time of writing this blog, Alienware’s website didn’t include any details of when it will be available for sale, or how much it would cost, or anything like a press release on it. The machine will be capable of running up to three 4K monitors simultaneously and support up to 32GB of DDR4 memory running DDR4-2133.
Posted in DDR4, DIMM, DRAM Industry, Uncategorized |
As predicted in my earlier blog entry, today is the official launch of Intel’s products supporting DDR4.
Posted in DDR Controller, DDR4, DIMM, DRAM Industry |
There is a ton of internet speculation today – mostly based on a report on a Japanese website – that Intel will make it’s first DDR4-compatible products available on August 29th and that internet retailers may make those products available for sale the same day. Earlier speculation was that Intel would release the DDR4-compatible products in time for the Intel Developer Forum in mid-September.
Posted in DDR4, DIMM, DRAM Industry, Uncategorized |
Graham Allan
Graham Allan is the Sr. Product Marketing Manager for DDR PHYs at Synopsys. Graham graduated from Carleton University's Electrical Engineering program with a passion for electronics that landed him in the field of DRAM design at Mosaid in Ottawa, Canada. Beginning at the 64Kb capacity, Graham worked on DRAM designs through to the 256Mb generation. Starting in 1992, Graham was a key contributor to the JEDEC standards for SDRAM, DDR SDRAM and DDR3 SDRAM. Graham holds over 20 patents in the field of DRAM and memory design.