Intel is probably the most influential personal computer industry participant, even despite of the fact that their influence began to become weaker in the recent years, the company still can “kill” or “spare” certain technology achievements. This time the company decided to spare the DDR400 memory from falling into oblivion on the mainstream market and adopt it in the future chipsets such as CaterWood and Springdale what caused JEDEC to change their opinion not to ratify the standard.

As Samsung Electronics today reported that industry support for the DDR400 has been gaining momentum, despite an earlier lack of industry standard endorsement, which discouraged most memory manufacturers from developing DDR400 chips. The high end Gaming PC and White Box PC market has embraced these performance memories and sales are strong in these channels. A JEDEC committee meeting held last week in Hawaii has indicated a move to support the DDR400 standard, probably due to Intel’s desire to utilise this type of memory in future.

Samsung Electronics added that sales of Samsung’s high-speed Double Date Rate (128Mb and 256Mb DDR333 and DDR400) DRAMs surged to more than 10 million units (128Mb equivalent) for the month of November as demand increased for high-speed memory in high-performance PCs and work stations. Currently, Samsung is using a 0.13 micron design rule for its DDR333 and DDR400 devices and is producing a variety of modules in capacities of 128MB, 256MB and 512MB.

See also:

- RDRAM Market Share Continued to Decrease in November. Transition to DDR SDRAM Continues
- Hynix Started to Sample the Fastest DDR SDRAM Chips on the Planet
- OCZ Technology to Launch DDR500 Memory Modules