Samsung Electronics begins production of world’s fastest RAM

Samsung Electronics begins production of world’s fastest RAM

With requirements for faster computing power increasing on a daily basis, companies are working hard on developing components that breaks the limits set by current hardware. Samsung is one such tech giant who has now started production of memory chips, which it claims is the fastest RAM in the world. The chip is Samsung 256 MB XDR DRAM where XDR points to eXtreme Data Rate.

This RAM module features an Octal Data Rate process, which lets it transfer data at around eight bits per clock cycle. This enables it to transfer data at a speed of 8gbps. Samsung claims that the RAM module performs 10 times faster than traditional DDR 400 memory and around 5 times faster than RDRAM (PC800) memory sticks.

Samsung is aiming this particular RAM module at highly intensive gaming and graphical environments like gaming consoles, servers and of course Digital televisions. Workstations used for high-end graphical applications would also benefit from this product from the stables of Samsung. A senior representative at Samsung Semiconductor Mueez Deen told the media about this product: “XDR technology has tremendous potential to become a leading memory solution for today’s highest performance multimedia applications, and we are quite enthusiastic about its prospects”.

This is not the end of Samsung’s current plans. They plan to introduce an even faster RAM module 512 MB XDR DRAM during the current year, which would be capable of data transfer at 12.8 gbps.