Samsung Starts mass-production of enterprise DDR4 memory

Samsung has begun mass production of the "industry's most advanced" DDR4 memory, destined for the next-generation of enterprise servers and data centers. The company is touting their DRAM as being the highest performing yet, while also reducing power consumption significantly compared to DDR3 RAM.

Corsair Readies 3000 MHz DDR3 Dominator Platinum Rams

As Computex 2012 nears its start, new products are soon enough popping everywhere. This time however, Corsair has readied a new variant of their Dominator series with the Dominator Platinum clocked at a whooping 3000 MHz!

The new Dominators feature an all new design in terms of heat dispersion efficiency that also both cools and looks cool too! The first modules have been designed for the Z77 chipset supported Core i series 3XXX processors as well as X79 LGA 2011 processors with support for Intel’s XMP 1.3 profiles.

The rams will be available in a memory size of 4GB each and has been designed for overclockers who tend to go to the extreme. So for benchmarkers out there looking to set their records, this will be indeed a viable tool who look out to set world records.

Price and availability have yet to be disclosed.

Micron to buy Elpida, DRAM market left with 3 competitors

Bloomberg brings news from Japan that U.S-based chipmakerMicron Technology will purchase Japanese rival Elpida. This falls in line with a statement made last month by CEO Mark Durcan that Micron would make the purchase, but only if it could avoid stock dilution and the acquisition of too much interest-bearing debt.

Micron is the last major U.S-based maker of memory chips, well known for its brand of Crucial memory and its solid entries into the SSD space. Elpida is a major supplier or memory chips for Apple.

Elpida filed for bankruptcy in February due a perfect storm of falling DRAM prices and Japan's increasingly strong currency, a combination which makes it difficult to export goods which are both profitable and competitively priced.

Micron is said to be paying about 140 billion yen -- or about 1.76 billion dollars -- just to shed a portion of Elpida's debt. The report also claims that Micron will also be investing about 100 billion yen in Elpida's facilities, a shot in the arm which should bolster its ability to crank out DRAM chips.

Micron's absorption of Elpida will leave the global DRAM market with only three competitors: Samsung, Hynix and Micron. Currently, Samsung owns about 41 percent of the market while Hynix comes in a distant second at 24 percent. Both Micron and Elpida weigh in around 12 percent each, meaning their combined total will essentially tie them with Hynix in terms of market volume.