While most people are still switching from a DDR3 to a DDR4 platform, JEDEC consortium is already working on the next standard. Considering that 2014 DDR4 has been introduced on Intel's X99 platform, the standard was first revealed in 2008. Therefore it’s about time that JEDEC announced that they are working on DDR5 (Double Data Rate 5) and NVDIMM-P Design standards moving forward.


The JEDEC DDR5 standard will follow past developments and contain increased clock speeds as well as lower power consumption, compared to the previous generation of DRAM technologies. Furthermore DDR5 will provide double the bandwidth and density over DDR4. In many markets like servers for example, DDR5 might is going to be a big step forward, increasing memory capacity drastically while reducing power consumption.

Since more and more services have been moved into the cloud throughout the past few years there is an ever growing server structure behind managing those workloads. One of the most critical components in these server is the memory, ensuring for instance that requests are delivered with lowest possible latency, leveraging the benefits of having the data readily available in the memory. Higher capacity DIMMs, which at the same time require less power, help in providing more performance in a denser envelope.

According to the latest reports, JEDEC will show a first preview of DDR5 SDRAM at their 2017 Server Forum on June 19th. At the moment it’s unknown when the first DDR5-DIMMs are going to be introduced. Nevertheless we’re pretty sure it won’t be before 2020 that we see DDR5 in the desktop market.




Source: OC3D