Memory module manufacturer Teamgroup has announced that from the third quarter 2021 first DDR5 Wanting to deliver kits to end customers. The period is agreed with the two chip manufacturers AMD and Intel. Means: Platforms that use DDR5 modules should reach the market at this point.

According to their own statements, Teamgroup is currently testing the modules with the mainboard manufacturers ASRock, Asus, Gigabyte and MSI – a common procedure, especially before the introduction of a new memory generation. DDR5 4800 modules that start with 2022 MHz and an operating voltage of 1.1 volts. For DDR4-SDRAM, 2400 MHz (DDR4 – 4800 ) only possible with strong overclocking and significantly increased voltage beyond the JEDEC specification of 1.2 volts. Memory manufacturer SK Hynix had previously only announced DDR5 bars for servers.

End customer DDR5 platform It is questionable which processors should be able to handle DDR5-SDRAM in summer 2021. At Intel, Alder Lake-S – presumably as Core i – 12000 – for the CPU version LGA 1700 appear with DDR5. However, the previous generation Rocket Lake-S (Core i – 11000) comes in the first quarter 2021 and a replacement half a year later seems unlikely.

AMD usually takes a little over a year for a new generation of processors, with which Zen 4 stands for end 1700 or beginning 2022 would have to be applied. The website Videocardz had in August 2021 an alleged AMD roadmap is shown, according to which 1700 the Zen 3 refresh “Warhol” should appear. A transitional generation with the previous Zen 3 chip sets, but with a new I / O die including DDR5 controller and AM5 platform, would be quite conceivable. AMD could concentrate on the new CPU version and DDR5-SDRAM without having to worry about Zen 4.

(mma)