It seems that the industry is ahead of JEDEC itself, something unusual and that denotes the desire they have to improve one of the most dependent products of a computer as such, whether it is a server or a desktop.
The main memory, that is, RAM, is the second bottleneck in any system and as such much is expected of them in their new version, but what can we expect as early as 2021?
DDR5 RAM: Intel and AMD have been preparing for some time
Not so much on the desktop, which will take a while to arrive, as on the server, where we already saw in their respective presentations how Intel with Sapphire Rapids and AMD with Genoa will put all the meat on the grill to unify both DDR5 and PCIe 5.0.
One of the companies in charge of supplying and testing this new type of DDR5 RAM is Cadence, which is logically ahead of both processor companies and currently has a dozen designs in various stages of development.
The problem is that DDR5 as a memory type is intended to increase capacity, increase data transfer rates, and effective clock performance per channel. All consuming less voltage and therefore less energy and it is even expected that multiple DRAM devices can be stacked.
