Hi Stacy!
First, of all, I for one am utterly amazed at the advances that have been
made in computer performance. Hell, it seems that it wasn't that long ago
that I thought if I had a 40MB hard drive, and 8MB of RAM, I was "leading
edge"...and it really wasn't that long ago, that's what is so amazing.
Now I have a laptop that has 8-times more RAM than the capacity that most
hard-drives had back then, and my hard drive has the capacity that wasn't
even thought about back in those days...again, that wasn't that long ago. If
someone said back then there would be 10Gbit hard drives in portable laptop
computers, you would have been thought crazy, not only because of the
question of how in the world could that much storage be built and fit inside
a laptop, and then the question would arise of why in the world you ever need
such storage? My, my, how things have changed.
Talking about data storage, we just took delivery of a new server at our
company. I actually saw our IT guy drooling...it has 54-terabites worth of
drives...54,000 gigabites!
I'm impressed to be sure...
Although I'm not in memory manufacturing anymore, I know that the roadmaps
that are out there, maybe old stuff weeks or months from now...things are so
competive and closely guarded in this arena, that really you don't know what
could be released next week.
From what I've seen though, DDR has the immeadiate future for the next few
years, they're in a variety of packages...TSOP, MicroBGA, depending on
density...
I found a good *.PDF that has a roadmap from RAMBUS that talks about memory
and motherboard development from their perspective....don't know if you've
seen it.
It's at:
http://www.rambus.co.jp/developer_site/downloads/PlatformPresentation_0701.pdf
It's 35-pages, so it's a hefty download...but hey, we got all this memory
now, piece of cake huh?...hehehe
Again, this is only the stuff that's talked about...I keep hearing snipets
about single chip computers...we all may be amazed once again!
-Steve Gregory-
> Happy New Year To All,
>
> In order to utilize our current equipment and better
> eval the future equipment, I need to some help on the
> 3- 5 year future of Memory Product.
>
> Typically, at this moment,
>
> DDRDIMM, RIMM, DIMM are 5.25" L and 1 - 1.7" Height,
> using from micro BGA, 16 mils pitch component, to 31
> mils. For small component, 0402 is the smallest.
>
> 144 SODIMM is 2.66 L x 1 - 1.5 H, using the same
> components as the above.
>
> The ratio on DIMM is 4 small component/1 TSOP and 8/1
> for DDR.
>
> That is what I know for now. This would last for 1
> year.
>
> How about the future? Do you have any guild line from
> Intel, ADM, Jedec? about component usage, small/big
> component ratio, PCB outline? ...
>
> Please advise.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stacy
>
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