They are working on the standard of DDR5 RAM, which will come to replace the current DDR4 RAM memories, although this change will take a while.
Technology advances and evolves at a dizzying rate, often difficult to even follow. The technique is evolving towards two parameters, higher power and higher energy efficiency. Relatively recently, DDR4 memories have reached the market and AMD up to AMD Ryzen had not implemented them, but DDR4 RAM memory has its days numbered and it is already beginning to work on DDR5 memories, which are the future and that will offer twice the speed of DDR4 memories.
Work has begun on the specifications for what will be the DDR5 RAM standard and according to JEDEC, the organization that is responsible for the development of this standard, it will be ready next year. DDR5 will first replace DDR4 in servers and then it will make the commercial leap to users.
These new memories, as reported, will be twice as fast as the current DDR4 and will also have lower energy consumption, something that is widely watched within the industry. The DDR5 will also have a higher density, which will be double with respect to the current DDR4, which means that we will also have double the capacity per DDR5 RAM module.
Some circles had the theory that DDR4 memories were the latest evolution of DDR RAM as we know it and more after the arrival of Optane from Intel. DDR5 had few options in its development, but in the end it seems that DDR RAM is still alive, for now. This has occurred thanks to a change in the internal design of computers and servers, which has facilitated the arrival of a new standard.
These memories are still under development and it is difficult to specify when they will appear commercially, since it is not valid that it is developed, it is necessary that the processors give them support and before the average user, they will arrive for professional uses, such as servers. The logical thing is that after they make the leap to high-end and gaming and finally they reach laptops. Logically, a special version with very low consumption will also be developed for smartphones and tablets.
The DDR5, as we said, should compete with Intel's 3DXpoint, but there are more alternatives to this memory that aim high. We currently have the HBM2 and GDDR5X, which despite the fact that they are currently only memory for graphics, who knows if they could lead to a standard to work with processors. We also have the 3D Hybid Memory Cube or 3D HMC, which are used in the Intel Xeon Phi.
Source: pcworld
