Industry Insider Report: AMD to Adopt DDR500 Officially

digerati · Apr 25, 2005, 08:03 AM

"Up until today, DDR400 has been the official memory standard for majority of the platforms, but Intel made the change to DDR2, and now it’s AMD’s turn to make a change to their platform. According to an insider source, AMD has plans to adopt DDR500 as its official memory standard in the very near future.

Before making the switch to other memory standards, the chipmaker has decided to extend support for DDR even further. The source said AMD would most likely support DDR500 with its Venice core microprocessors.

According to the information we received, AMD was in talks with memory makers to make this idea a reality since last year. In fact, the chipmaker was conversing about supporting low-latency DDR500 modules, as they tend to work best with AMD microprocessors and their onboard memory controller.

The insider said support for 250-memory divider is already available in numerous BIOS files, but it’s a matter of time before motherboard makers enable that feature. Since MSI supplies sample boards to AMD, all of their boards have the up-clock memory ratios that they can enable.

Thus far, that’s the only information we have received. All in all, AMD will continue to support DDR and may even move up to DDR500 as its official memory standard."

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Source: Cool_Tech_Zone

Apr 25, 2005, 08:03 AM	#1
digerati Everyones life has worth Join Date: May 2003 Location: My Yellow Bug Posts: 3,779 Rep Power: 0	Industry Insider Report: AMD to Adopt DDR500 Officially "Up until today, DDR400 has been the official memory standard for majority of the platforms, but Intel made the change to DDR2, and now it’s AMD’s turn to make a change to their platform. According to an insider source, AMD has plans to adopt DDR500 as its official memory standard in the very near future. Before making the switch to other memory standards, the chipmaker has decided to extend support for DDR even further. The source said AMD would most likely support DDR500 with its Venice core microprocessors. According to the information we received, AMD was in talks with memory makers to make this idea a reality since last year. In fact, the chipmaker was conversing about supporting low-latency DDR500 modules, as they tend to work best with AMD microprocessors and their onboard memory controller. The insider said support for 250-memory divider is already available in numerous BIOS files, but it’s a matter of time before motherboard makers enable that feature. Since MSI supplies sample boards to AMD, all of their boards have the up-clock memory ratios that they can enable. Thus far, that’s the only information we have received. All in all, AMD will continue to support DDR and may even move up to DDR500 as its official memory standard." ______________________________________________ Source: Cool_Tech_Zone