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DDR4 memory: Twice the speed, less power

65 点作者 Mitt超过 12 年前

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ajross超过 12 年前
It's important to note that "twice the speed" refers to transfer speed, not latency or cycle time. Modern DRAM technology has capped out at a cycle time of about 30MHz, and isn't going to change much in the future. That time is limited by the time required to precharge the bit lines to a voltage accurate enough to measure the stored values against. These are big wires going across the whole chip by definition, so they don't see improvements due to process shrinkage. On a modern DDR3-1600 part, there are 1.6G potential transfers per second, but a full random access cycle requires about 60 of these (10-10-10-30 timings are typical). The time taken to issue the command is 2 clocks, and the time taken to read the data is 4. The rest is just idle waiting. So even "infinitely clocked" dram would be only about 10% faster in the worst case.
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Scene_Cast2超过 12 年前
If I recall correctly, memory manufacturers have ready to manufacture / release DDR4 for some time now. The CPU companies are the ones that aren't making the move until 2014.
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rogerbinns超过 12 年前
For the folks that care about power consumption, there is already DDR3L and DDR3U today that use lower voltages than standard DDR3. Intel's Ivy Bridge chipsets can support DDR3 and DDR3L and I'm using the latter in my laptop.
programminggeek超过 12 年前
Wasn't HP working on memresistors that were going to be way faster than traditional memory, but they've pushed it back a year or two so their partners could adjust their biz models? Were they waiting for DDR4 maybe?
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sitkack超过 12 年前
This will be a huge boon to virtualization and machines with high multitasking workloads (refilling the caches quickly).<p>Cache locality and streaming reads and writes are still as important as ever.
twodayslate超过 12 年前
Not until 2014 :(