Cadence confirms that the first DDR5 memories will work at 4800 MHz, they will arrive this year
While JEDEC has not yet publicly released the final version of the DDR5 memory standard, major chipmakers already have access to their documents to begin manufacturing both the drivers and memory chips, and Cadence revealed some important details about this new standard.
The first information confirmed by Cadence is that the base specification will be 4800MHz, being the minimum frequency that we will see in these new reports. We will also see more frequent models, although the company did not specify what they would be.
Bandwidth
Other important information is that the main objective of the new standard is not bandwidth but capacity, so we will see conventional modules of up to 256GB with access to data in less than 100ns. Although there are currently 256GB modules, they use special technologies that are only supported on servers, and not by any conventional processor or motherboard.
Release date
The company also revealed that it is already taking orders for its first products that use this technology and that we will begin to see them on the market later this year, so there is very little left to take a first look at the DDR5 memories.
As much as we see the first products this year, on most conventional platforms, we won’t see DDR5 memories until next year. Both AMD and Intel plan to give support only in 2021, and even Samsung will start manufacturing its chips in 2021, so it takes a little more to see a massive use of this technology.
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