According to an AMD press release AMD has worked closely with its third-party partners to support the increasing industry demand for DDR memory platform solutions, and has helped the industry drive to a single DDR memory specification. AMD and leading memory vendors have also worked with SMART Modular Technologies, an independent validation test house, to ensure the compatibility and reliability of the memory solutions. Leading memory manufacturers offering DDR memory modules include Micron, Samsung, Infineon Technologies, Elpida, Hyundai, IBM, Mitsubishi and Toshiba.
“DDR SDRAM is rapidly gaining momentum as the next memory solution. Micron has worked closely with AMD on enabling DDR SDRAM and we are positioning our production capability to support AMD Athlon processor based DDR platforms with 64MB, 128MB, and 256MB DDR technology,” said Mike Seibert, DRAM Technical Marketing Manager, Micron. “We are happy to participate with AMD in the introduction of the first volume DDR platforms.”
“Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. is committed to leading the DDR SDRAM market and is working to pave the way for the availability of low cost, high-performance DDR technology for the server, workstation and high-performance desktop PC markets,” said Dieter Mackowiak, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales of SSI. “With today’s availability of DDR SDRAM for both 128MB and 256MB, Samsung is ready to support the growing demand for DDR products.”
“Infineon is very pleased to be working with AMD and the industry to build the market for systems supporting DDR memory,” said Peter Schaefer, Vice President, Memory Products, Infineon Technologies Corp. of North America. “Through the first half of 2000, Infineon has been the industry’s leading supplier of DDR memory for graphics applications, with our 1M x 32 DDR SGRAM. We also are the first company to offer 256Mbit DDR SDRAM based modules for PC200/266 applications, and we strongly believe that our support of this density will help pave the way for the availability of high performance DDR technology for the server, workstation and high-end desktop PC markets.”