Samsung develops DDR4 memory with up to 40 percent better energy efficiency than DDR3

DDR3 has just picked up from where DDR2 left. It’s going big and fast and cheap too, which the public needs. However, Samsung has not been chillaxing behind, as the firm has made announcement of a DDR4 DRAM stick that can perform read and write operations using up to 40 percent less power than the old/current DDR3 stuff.

Bandwidth maxes out at 2.13Gbps at 1.2V, while Pseudo Open Drain technology assists in minimizing the battery impact. Over time, Samsung projects the new DRAM modules will hit 4Gbps speeds. It’s working away with server makers right now in order to achieve JEDEC certification, but the target market will clearly be laptops and other mobile devices, where energy-frugal memory like this would best be appreciated.

While they may be getting JEDEC certification this can actually take years to go into mainstream so such announcement will not bother the market of DDR3 in anyway actually. Remember back when DDR3 was announced, it took quite some time to land too. But this DDR4 will be great for server market, where the 40 percent less power consumption will be very obvious when it comes to huge memory.