Samsung announced the world’s largest 512 GB DDR5 RAM stick, “terrible” speed up to 7200 Mbps

Samsung has stacked 8 memory chips on top of each other to create the world’s largest 512 GB DDR5 RAM stick.

Samsung just announced that it has made a major breakthrough in the design of SDRAM DDR5 with its 512GB DDR5 DIMM module. This is not only the largest RAM stick in the world, but it also leads in speed, up to 7200 Mbps.

Samsung does this thanks to the application of TSV (Through Silicon Via) technology, which allows stacking 8 memory chips on top of each other. In addition, this RAM stick also uses High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) materials commonly used for logic transistors to limit leakage current.

In addition, this new RAM module is also 13% more energy efficient, bringing huge benefits to data centers. It is designed for broadband-intensive tasks in the medical research, financial markets, automotive, and so on.

As for gamers, it is not necessary to have 512 GB of RAM. Besides, most desktop CPUs only support up to 64 GB or 128 GB. DDR5 has twice the bandwidth of DDR4 and is more power efficient, but currently there is no platform in the mainstream user segment that supports it.

It is expected that Intel “Alder Lake” will be the first mainstream platform to support DDR5 RAM, and it is planned to launch around early 2022. On the AMD side, the Zen 4 architecture is also said to support RAM. DDR5 and will be available in the summer of 2022.

Source PC Gamer compiled Gearvn