Tag archive: RAM

A San Francisco County Superior Court jury has ruled against former memory maker Rambus in its long-running antitrust case against memory makers Micron and Hynix, finding that neither Micron or Hynix conspired to fix the price of memory chips, or conspired with other manufacturers like Intel and Samsung to keep Rambus from gaining traction in the market. The jury's vote was nine to three after more than eight weeks of deliberation, and… Read More

South Korean electronics giant Samsung has announced that it has finished development of the industry's first DDR DRAM memory module, new RAM technology for computer and other devices that the aims to offer twice the performance of existing DDR3 RAM while consuming 40 percent less power—a boon for mobile devices and notebook computers. But, realizing the promise of faster memory in tomorrow's computers is something of a… Read More

With the porker known as Windows Vista now behind us, we thought accusations of obscene system resource hogging were well behind us, too. Not so. After “Craig Barth” from Devil Mountain Software reported last week that Windows 7 was gobbling up almost all system RAM on 85 percent of installed computers, new reports have identified Mr Barth as a fraud and explained the alleged memory claims. After digging into Craig Barth’s history and mysterious… Read More

The old axiom that you can’t upgrade a laptop has never been less true. Sure, your nay-saying, desktop-bound friends who repeat it have a basic kernel of truth in their favor – the core guts of a mobile machine are pretty much set in stone. But if you’re not looking to completely revamp a computer (which can hardly be called an upgrade anyway), aftermarket manufacturers have found plenty of clever ways to skirt the issue of expandability, and… Read More