TwinMOS to produce DDR2-800 modules in June; claims fastest PC at CeBIT

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TwinMOS Technologies will start manufacturing DDR2-800 DRAM modules in small quantities later this year, probably in June, the company said at CeBIT. On its booth at the trade fair, TwinMOS has been displaying a working system using DDR2-800 modules. The company claims that this system is the fastest PC at this year’s CeBIT.

TwinMOS doesn’t expect it will manufacture more than a few tens of DDR2-800 modules per month when production actually begins. Unless and until there is a chipset supporting DDR2-800 memory, the modules are necessary mostly just for evaluation purposes. That’s why there is no reason to produce them in large quantities, TwinMOS said.

The working modules at CeBIT use DDR2-800 DRAM chips from Elpida. The platform is built around Abit’s Fatal1ty AA8XE motherboard specially designed for overclocking purposes. On this platform, the Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor with a core frequency of 3.73GHz can be overclocked to over 5.4GHz with the operation frequency of DDR2 memory exceeding 770MHz, TwinMOS demonstrated.
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Source: Digitimes