DDR5 insights from Samsung and Netac
DDR5 successor to DDR4 will be quite better than DDR4, the basic DDR5 specification is just 4,800 MHz where, well that will be justified when DDR5 will be out, but Netac, a company specialized in NAND flash storage, may even develop DDR5-10000MHz modules when fully enhanced.
Samsung and SK Hynix have promised DDR5 memory modules would be 7,200 MHz and SK Hynix even promised one with 8,400 MHz. And then there's Netac, which announced 10,000 MHz, or even higher.
The Micron chips Netac received have the IFA45 Z9ZSB FBGA code, and are engineering samples with MT60B2G8HB-48B ES:A part number, featuring a 16 GB capacity. Marked at 6400 Mhz between 1.1 V and 1.8 V, so Netac has to do quite a bit of work to bring its chips at 10,000 MHz which certainly isn't impossible, which brings the potential of having 64 GB per chip.
Where Samsung managed to make 512GB of DDR5 RAM sticks, and also at 7,200 MB/s which is totally crazy, well that is by stacking eight memory chips on top of each other. And also uses 13% less power, well but these modules are made for Data centers and such and not so much for gaming or general family computers, and these modules are made for high bandwidth workloads.
DDR5 is set to be out in 2022 and is expected to be supported by Intel's Alder Lake (12th Gen), and AMD's Zen 4 (Ryzen 7000) which will also be released in 2022.
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