Back in early June, we received our first sets of DDR4 RAM from Crucial, which we posted about in an article called, "A close-up look and discussion of Crucial's upcoming DDR4 Memory". We now have had ...

Micron announced its first fully functional DDR4 module back on May 7, 2012. These memory modules were co-developed by Nanya and were based on Micron's 30nm technology. The memory modules were ...

Samsung has announced that it is pushing forward 20nm DDR3 DRAM, and has already begun volume production on the next-generation lithography node. Some of you may recall that Samsung has been building ...

New CPU and GPU architectures roil the market pretty much every year—sometimes more than once a year. Yet in spite of the impact that system memory can have on a PC’s performance, the industry has ...

The big picture: DDR3 launched in 2007, when Intel's Core 2 Extreme and AMD's Phenom X4 were the best consumer processors on the market. The PC hardware scene has come a long way since then, but ...

What is RAM?Over the past few years, nearly every PC component, including storage drives, graphics accelerators, motherboards, and CPUs, has seen significant performance updates—everything except the ...