16GB LRDIMM targets enterprise server memory

SMART Modular Technologies (WWH), Inc. has announced the immediate availability of its 16GB DDR3 load-reduced DIMM (LRDIMM), which is particularly well suited to support growing cloud-computing and server-virtualization applications.


SMART's 16GB LRDIMM targets next-generation Intel® Sandy Bridge server and storage-based platforms for networking and high-performance computing applications. The company reports that this LRDIMM allows designers to populate all of the memory sockets in a system to their maximum density while operating at full clock speed.Systems using Intel's Sandy Bridge are expected to begin shipping in the 2H'11, and system designs are underway now. For implementation on existing platforms, SMART can provide bios modification guidance so that the LRDIMM benefits can be used prior to the industry launch in 2H'11.

Key Features:

• Inphi Corporation (NYSE: IPHI) Isolation Memory Buffer (iMB™) instead of a register, which enables higher performance at maximum system capacity
•  data rates up to 1600MHz.
• off-the-shelf, mainstream 2Gb DDR3 DRAM technology.
• configured as a 2Gbx72 4-rank module with 2Gb 512Mx4 DRAMs running at a 1333MHz data rate.

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