To exploit lucrative market opportunities, satellite operators are trying to differentiate by offering added-value services like ultra-high-resolution imagery, live streaming video, and on-board AI to ...

Previously I introduced DDR4 for space applications (see “Fast DDR4 SDRAM to enable the new space age”) offering 4 GB of volatile storage at a clock frequency up to 1.2 GHz and a data rate of 2.4 GT/s ...

One of the problems with being engaged in our hobby or profession is that people assume if you can build a computer out of chips, you must know all the details of their latest laptop computer. Most of ...

Representing the most recent generation of double-data-rate (DDR) SDRAM memory, DDR4 and low-power LPDDR4 together provide improvements in speed, density, and power over DDR3. However, such speed and ...

JEDEC, the controlling body of the RAM standard, has published details about the DDR5 SDRAM spec to address the demand for ever-faster RAM. The new DDR5 spec is designed to enable scaling memory ...

Most computer technologies only last a short time before they are replaced by something new, but DDR RAM is one of the few that tends to last a while before being replaced. The original DDR SDRAM was ...