BAD HARDWARE WEEK

Finally, a truth on bad hardware. However, AMD has already DDR3 support incorporated in Barcelona chip , though as BAD HARWDARE founds switched off. For now. And reportedly, Nehalem should be a great success. Why not BArcelona? Now. However, in the future, let me notice, 16 unganged banks of HT3 at Shanghai relatives will sport 16 x 2GB = 32 GB of DDR3. With 4GB memory modules that will be hefty 64 GB.

By the way, DDR3 will start to dominate over DDR2 only in 2009. So, why bother with DDR3 support?

John: DDR3 technology itself is optimized for clock rate rather than for bandwidth. And our lab testing results back this up. Not to say that latency is not important, of course – that’s why we test our 1800MHz part at 7-7-7-20, which I believe is the lowest latency currently being offered at anywhere near this clock rate.