SK Hynix, the second largest memory chipmaker after Samsung, has just announced earlier today (6th October 2020) that it is the world’s first to release DDR5 DRAM (Double Data Rate dynamic random access memory) chips.
The new DDR5 DRAM chips boast
performance upgrades up to 1.8 times faster than the previous DDR4 generation
of memory. The South Korean company said that it has completed various tests
and has even provided partner companies with its samples for verification. One
such partner includes Intel. DDR5 is the next generation of DRAM standard,
which will have a broad application ranging from big data, artificial
intelligence, machine learning technologies, and more.
According to SK Hynix, the new
DDR5 DRAM supports a transfer rate of 4,800 to 5,600 Mbps, which is 1.8 times
faster than the 3,200 Mbps offered by DDR4. Notably, the fastest transfer rate
of 5,600 Mbps allows users to transmit about nine FHD movies with a size of 5GB
each in just one second. Despite the higher transfer rates, the new DRAM chips
are also more energy efficient with operating voltages being lowered from 1.2
volts to 1.1 volts, allowing for 20 percent less power consumption.SK Hynix
The new DDR5 chips are also
loaded with error correcting code (ECC) that is capable of correcting DRAM
cell’s 1-bit-level errors by itself. Furthermore, the new technology also has
increased the reliability of the DDR5 application system by 20 times and
allowed a reduction in power consumption and operating costs of data centers.