Like so many successful technologies, DDR memory seems to have been with us forever. At least, that’s how it seems from within the industry. On the high street though, things move a little slower. Remarkably it was only six short months ago that a well know PC super store referred to DDR as an “emerging technology”, as I found out when I got chatting to one of its service counter guys about which brands it stocked. And in its chain of stores it probably still was.
The pace of technology has always been brisk, but it seems the past twelve months have had even the most hardened hacks reaching for the anti-nausea pills to fend off the effects of spinning heads . We’ve moved from 32 bit to 64 bit processors, Socket 940 was joined by Socket 939, AGP morphed into PCI-express, Intel moved the pins from its processors to its sockets, and now, despite the fact that it seemed to be scaling well with maturity, it has been decided that 400MHz is plenty fast enough for DDR and we must all rush out and arm ourselves with a whole new breed of memory known rather unimaginatively as DDR2.
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May 24, 2005, 06:49 AM
