PC Peripherals Micron Declares HMC Memory Delivering 20x The Performance Of DDR3 Module

[Hades.]

Source: http://en.expreview.com/2011/02/14/...20x-the-performance-of-ddr3-module/14617.html

Recently Micron declares its latest memory technology——Hybrid Memory Cube,which is said to be the important breakthrough in the field of memory,and it’s said that a single HMC can provide more than 20x the performance of a DDR3 module.

The features of Hybrid Memory Cube:

Increased Bandwith

A single HMC can provide more than 20x the performance of a DDR3 module.

Power Reductions

HMC is exponentially more efficient than current memory using just one-tenth as much energy per bit.

Smaller physical systems HMC’s stacked architecture uses nearly 90% less space than today’s RDIMMs.

HMC technology is supposed to firstly be applied in high-performance computing field,and it’s predicted to enter into consumer market in 2015-2016.

 

[Digital Vampire]

Great! But an average consumer will have to wait till 2015-2016 to get a hold of this. Even the engineering community has not received a whiff of it yet.

I guess the next biggest innovation should be faster HDD's or SSD's since they are still the biggest bottleneck.