Firms push to extend mobile DRAM spec

Mark LaPedus, EETimes
2/22/2011 4:39 PM EST

SAN FRANCISCO – There is a proposed standard to extend mobile DRAM technology to higher speeds-a move that could push out competing next-generation efforts from MIPI, Rambus, Silicon Image and the 3-D chip community.

There are discussions within industry body JEDEC to extend LPDDR2 technology to run at speeds of 800-MHz-and perhaps 1,066-MHz. Elpida, Hynix, Micron and Samsung separately have some or all of these LPDDR2 parts in the works.

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