Xbox 360 and Qimonda GDDR3 Deal
June 12, 2006 by Ingrid Diaz
Filed under Gaming
The Infineon Technologies memory unit spinoff, Qimonda, announced today that it has struck a deal with Microsoft to be the supplier of choice for graphics RAM for the Xbox 360 console. Qimonda will be providing the company with a “significant share of 512Mbit GDDR3 (Graphics Double Data Rate 3) RAM”.
In the Xbox 360, each of the eight GDDR3 16Mbit×32 components used operates at a rated clock speed to achieve data bandwidth of up to 44.8Gbit/s per memory device. The 512Mbit GDDR3 comes in a JEDEC compliant 136-ball FBGA package with dimensions of 11×14×1.2mm.
GDDR3, by the way, is Sony’s preferred choice for the PS3’s graphics processor, though the PS3 will be using XDR DRAM for its main system memory, which means very little to most people.
By comparison, my brain runs on OMG WTF3, which allows for slower-speed memory modules and over-simplified cooling systems.
“By comparison, my brain runs on OMG WTF3, which allows for slower-speed memory modules and over-simplified cooling systems.”
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