Taking a track day car to an event for regular road vehicles seems a bit unfair from the point of view of the regular drivers, however in order to be the best you need to end up with specialized components. Eventually you end up competing aga…
Taking a track day car to an event for regular road vehicles seems a bit unfair from the point of view of the regular drivers, however in order to be the best you need to end up with specialized components. Eventually you end up competing aga…
I spent quite a bit of time at ADATA’s booth this year as I had a meeting with their president along with the directors of their SSD and memory marketing teams. I’ll be doing separate articles of those discussions along with the other products I saw at their booth since there was a lot of information to digest, so for now I’ll just cover the DDR4 as that was definitely the most interesting part.
Similar to Crucial, ADATA’s big thing to show was their DDR4. ADATA is one of the few OEMs that will be ready with their DDR4 once Intel’s X99 platform ships and they will have a relatively wide range of products available. Their DDR4 solutions will start at 2133MHz and will go all the way to up to 3200MHz, which is 200MHz faster than what Crucial will be releasing at launch. The latency rating for the 3200MHz will be CL16 but at 2133MHz and 2400MHz ADATA will offer latencies of as low as CL12. ADATA also emphasized that they have focused on the overclockability, so it will be interesting to see what kind of speeds can be reached. Kits of 8GB (2x4GB) and 16GB (2x8GB) will be available and you should expect to see them hit retail as soon as the X99 does.
ADATA also had some enterprise DDR4 at their booth with capacities of up to 16GB at 2133MHz (CL15). There was also a very low-profile version with a maximum capacity of 8GB, which is mainly aimed for blade servers and other environments that are very space conservative.
What was really interesting was their 32GB DDR3 module. There is some patented technology behind this from another company that has a strategic alliance with ADATA but I’ll cover that in more detail when I get back home since it really requires a more in-depth look.
Stay tuned for more news of what ADATA had on display at their booth, including some SandForce SF3700 coverage!
I spent quite a bit of time at ADATA’s booth this year as I had a meeting with their president along with the directors of their SSD and memory marketing teams. I’ll be doing separate articles of those discussions along with the other products I saw at their booth since there was a lot of information to digest, so for now I’ll just cover the DDR4 as that was definitely the most interesting part.
Similar to Crucial, ADATA’s big thing to show was their DDR4. ADATA is one of the few OEMs that will be ready with their DDR4 once Intel’s X99 platform ships and they will have a relatively wide range of products available. Their DDR4 solutions will start at 2133MHz and will go all the way to up to 3200MHz, which is 200MHz faster than what Crucial will be releasing at launch. The latency rating for the 3200MHz will be CL16 but at 2133MHz and 2400MHz ADATA will offer latencies of as low as CL12. ADATA also emphasized that they have focused on the overclockability, so it will be interesting to see what kind of speeds can be reached. Kits of 8GB (2x4GB) and 16GB (2x8GB) will be available and you should expect to see them hit retail as soon as the X99 does.
ADATA also had some enterprise DDR4 at their booth with capacities of up to 16GB at 2133MHz (CL15). There was also a very low-profile version with a maximum capacity of 8GB, which is mainly aimed for blade servers and other environments that are very space conservative.
What was really interesting was their 32GB DDR3 module. There is some patented technology behind this from another company that has a strategic alliance with ADATA but I’ll cover that in more detail when I get back home since it really requires a more in-depth look.
Stay tuned for more news of what ADATA had on display at their booth, including some SandForce SF3700 coverage!
Obviously one of the biggest topics of Computex this year is DDR4. Crucial will be bringing their DDR4 to the consumer market under the Ballistix Elite brand with speeds of 2666MHz and 3000MHz in the beginning. The modules themselves will be 4GB or 8GB at first, although kits will range all the way to up to 32GB (4x8GB). The latencies are still up in the air as the product isn’t finalized yet but from what I have heard the latencies will be about CL15 at first, although it’s certainly possible that there will be different models with different latencies available. Availability is slated for August but pricing has yet to be announced.
The big thing about DDR4 is that it comes with a lower voltage of 1.2V compared to 1.5V that DDR3 uses by standard. That will result in lower power consumption, which ultimately means longer battery life for mobile devices. In addition, DDR4 is also bringing higher speeds because right at the beginning we are going to see products at 3000MHz, although Crucial told me that they have been able to get the modules to run at up to 3200MHz, so we might see even faster modules pretty soon. DDR4 will also bring support for higher densities (4Gb vs 1Gb), which will allow bigger for higher capacity DIMMs. While Crucial’s offerings will be limited to 8GB at launch, they (well, Micron) has quad rank server DIMMs that go to up to 32GB but only at 2133MHz.
In addition to DDR4, Crucial also had the MX100 at their suite. We already reviewed the drive earlier this week when it officially launched, so there isn’t really anything new to share, but Crucial was able to tell me that they are working on an SSD toolbox that should be available within a few months (I was told around September). This has been one of the only things missing from Crucial’s SSDs, so it’s great to see that they are responding to the public demand. The supply of MX100 should also be a lot better than the M500 when it launched, meaning that you shouldn’t see any sold out tags at every retailer.