Memory trend charts from PCPartPicker show how much has changed in a relatively short time. For much of 2025, DDR4 pricing ...

Today Luke focuses on memory performance with the new Intel 12th Generation platform, comparing a high end DDR5 kit from ...

What is RAM?Over the past few years, nearly every PC component, including storage drives, graphics accelerators, motherboards, and CPUs, has seen significant performance updates—everything except the ...

Micron Technology has plans to phase out its production of DDR4 memory chips within the next six to nine months. The company is gradually reducing output of these chips and encouraging its customers ...

Since the introduction of DDR5 memory kits to the consumer market, there is one thing that everyone is talking about – which memory type between DDR4 and DDR5 is the best. While both RAM types have ...

New CPU and GPU architectures roil the market pretty much every year—sometimes more than once a year. Yet in spite of the impact that system memory can have on a PC’s performance, the industry has ...

Priced right in the middle of the pack, Apacer offers a stunning looking kit of memory. Not only does it look fantastic, but with the highly binned SK Hynix ICs used, there is plenty of room left for ...

According to a new industry rumor, ASUS is preparing to ramp up production of DDR4-based desktop motherboards in early ...

Previously I introduced DDR4 for space applications (see “Fast DDR4 SDRAM to enable the new space age”) offering 4 GB of volatile storage at a clock frequency up to 1.2 GHz and a data rate of 2.4 GT/s ...

With Intel's "Alder Lake" 12th Generation desktop processors, we have the debut of a new memory standard in consumer PCs: DDR5, which is used by many of the motherboards that support the new chips.

Major changes to the PC’s RAM subsystem typically occur once in blue moon, but mere years after DDR4’s delayed rollout, that time is upon us yet again. How fast is DDR5? What will I need to run what?

Rowhammer exploits that allow unprivileged attackers to change or corrupt data stored in vulnerable memory chips are now possible on virtually all DDR4 modules due to a new approach that neuters ...