SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct 13, 1999 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Advanced Memory International, Inc. (AMII) today announced its support of AMD's DDR chipset plans, presented last week at Microprocessor Forum. AMII members are developing products that support both the PC1600(TM) and PC2100(TM) DDR SDRAM standards and are involved in the platform validation of AMD(TM) DDR chipsets that will be introduced in mid-2000. With up to 2.1 GB/second bandwidth, these memory technologies are the highest-performance host memory standards available. "PC1600 and PC2100 products can be manufactured using the same cost-effective manufacturing technology which AMII members now use for PC100 and PC133 memory," said Desi Rhoden, president, Advanced Memory International Inc. "For this reason, the initial cost premium of this technology is minimal and will rapidly hit parity with PC100 and PC133 products."
"Given the strong support from the memory industry and system OEMs, the PC1600 and PC2100 memory standards should become broadly adopted next year for use in leading edge PC desktops, workstations and servers," said Fred Weber, Vice President of Engineering for AMD's Computation Products Group. "We are especially pleased by the strong support for DDR memories from our AMII memory partners. As we announced at Microprocessor Forum, AMD is developing DDR chipsets for the AMD Athlon(TM) processor family as well as helping enable our chipset partners."
According to Jim Sogas, Director of the DRAM Division for Hitachi Semiconductor (America) Inc., "DDR SDRAM is an ideal memory solution to meet the high-performance requirements of AMD's new Athlon microprocessor that includes a double-data rate front side bus. DDR SDRAM is an evolutionary approach to higher performance memory that will help showcase Athlon's performance without appreciably impacting system cost. Hitachi is currently sampling 256-Mbit DDR SDRAM devices, and we are pleased to work with AMII to bring this technology to the mass market."
"AMD will be one of the leading enablers of DDR memory adoption for the personal computer market," said Chee Ho, Director of Memory Product Marketing at Infineon Technologies Corporation. "Infineon plans to be among the leading suppliers of DDR memory, and we look forward to working closely with companies like AMD to provide DDR SDRAM."
"Micron Technology has been working closely with AMD to support the AMD Athlon processor," said Mike Seibert, Strategic Marketing Manager at Micron Technology, Inc. "We believe DDR SDRAM is the most cost-effective, high-performance memory solution for these applications. DDR SDRAM enables system-level bandwidth of 2.1 gigabytes per second and is priced very competitively. Micron is committed to providing DDR SDRAM in volume in the coming year for workstation, server and desktop applications."
"Samsung is currently developing DDR memories supporting the PC1600 and PC2100 memory standards," said Mian Quddus, senior manager, technology enabling group, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. "We are pleased to be working with AMD and other enablers to help bring this leading-edge memory technology to the computer market."
About AMII
Advanced Memory International, Inc. is an open, non-profit corporation with the objectives of cooperatively accelerating market adoption of open, cost-effective and complete DRAM technologies. AMII's supporters include: DRAM industry leaders Fujitsu, Hitachi, Hyundai, IBM Microelectronics, Infineon (formerly Siemens), LG Semicon, Micron Technology, Mitsubishi, Mosaid, NEC, Samsung, Toshiba, Vanguard Semiconductor International and associated memory technology companies.
AMD, the AMD logo, AMD Athlon and combinations thereof, are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. PC1600 and PC2100 are trademarks of Advanced Memory International Inc. |
