Rambus Expands Chipset for Advanced Data Center Memory Modules with DDR5 Server PMICs

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"The PMIC is a critical component in the DDR5 memory architecture, enabling more memory channels, higher capacity modules and greater bandwidth. The Rambus DDR5 server PMIC family includes products for the JEDEC extreme current (PMIC5020), high current (PMIC5000) and low current (PMIC5010) specifications. The industry-leading Rambus PMIC5020 will enable future generations of DDR5 RDIMMs delivering new benchmarks for performance and capacity. This new family of Rambus server PMICs, together with Rambus DDR5 RCD, SPD Hub and Temperature Sensor ICs, comprise a complete memory interface chipset for a broad range of DDR5 RDIMM configurations and use cases. With over 30 years of high-performance memory experience, Rambus offers RDIMM manufacturers a one-stop shop for DDR5 memory interface chips, providing the highest level of validation assurance and speeding time to market.

Availability
The Rambus DDR5 PMIC5020, PMIC5000, and PMIC5010 are available now."


Source: https://www.techpowerup.com/321995/...-center-memory-modules-with-ddr5-server-pmics

I mean Rambus of old is skummy as all hell, but their recent exploits are pretty cool if you do server stuff.

Lakados said:

I mean Rambus of old is skummy as all hell, but

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I'm not familiar with that history. Can you explain.

Lakados said:

their recent exploits are pretty cool if you do server stuff.

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Not applicable to tech enthusiast system motherboards?

philb2 said:

I'm not familiar with that history. Can you explain.

Not applicable to tech enthusiast system motherboards?

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Rambus is the king of patent trolling.

philb2 said:

I'm not familiar with that history. Can you explain.

Not applicable to tech enthusiast system motherboards?

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Rambus of old managed to get their tech (which was awesome) baked into some IEEE standards which made a lot of things possible but then they sued everyone who used those IEEE standards that didn’t have a license.

Not many enthusiasts use registered RDIMMs or registered LRDIMMs. Exceedingly few boards are even capable of using it outside of the server and very high end workstation markets.

Lakados said:

Rambus of old managed to get their tech (which was awesome) baked into some IEEE standards which made a lot of things possible but then they sued everyone who used those IEEE standards that didn’t have a license.

Not many enthusiasts use registered RDIMMs or registered LRDIMMs. Exceedingly few boards are even capable of using it outside of the server and very high end workstation markets.

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And now that the pinout and keying is different between Registered/ECC and non-ECC modules, there's even LESS of a chance consumers will even touch it.