NEEDLE just signed a partnership contract with MSI and Gigabyte. This collaboration includes the development of DDR5 memory to be compatible with their motherboards. ADATA is among memory manufacturers such as CLUB which will make DDR5 memories available on the market at the end of this year. These memories allow more communication bandwidth to properly serve processors that have an increasing number of cores.

ADATA announces that it will finally be able to produce DDR5 memories with memory bandwidths of up to 8400 MT per second with capacity 64 Go. These memories will include ECC modules that will automatically correct memory errors. This is good news for users and developers as e.g Linus Torvald who complained about the absence of ECC modules in Intel memory components. These memories require a supply voltage of 1.1 Volts to operate. Therefore, ADATA signed a long-term contract with MSI and Gigabyte. The company will mainly optimize Intel platforms according to the press release issued by ADATA. AMD won’t be left out although it wasn’t mentioned because technically there wouldn’t be an incompatibility. This is just a marketing expense and to respond to the intense criticism that Intel recently received. It will also make sure to produce memories that can be made overclocks by users.

AMD and Intel have yet to officially comment on the new DDR5 memory. But we know that it will be supported for example by Intel with its high-performance hybrid processors, such as Alder Lake on the desktop. As for AMD, this memory will eventually be included with the new last-generation Ryzen processors based on the Zen 4 architecture, to mention only those of the EPYC 4 servers.^m generation. This memory will also be supported by the mobile sector. All of these will normally only apply from 2022.