Intel Skylake Could Feature Dual DDR3/DDR4 Memory Support with Double IMCs

[Not Confirmed] An interesting point raised by the Italian publication Bitsandchips.it, stated that Intel has tucked abroad a very big hint pertaining to retentiveness back up in its IDF14 slide deck. Upon closer inspection the hint is about DDR3 and DDR4 support at the same time probably utilizing a Dual-IMC design . The market is now moving toward DDR4 but its prices remain quite loftier, and so it might be possible that Intel volition innovate the to a higher place-mentioned tech to hasten the transition. Intel Broadwell and Skylake Platform

Dual-IMC with DDR3 and DDR4 Back up Could Grace Skylake Processors - Hints IDF14 Slides

As nosotros told you a long time agone and equally Intel later confirmed in IDF14, Skylake-South is coming in 2H 2022, most probably July. These will be quad cores and volition come in i5 and i7 variants with four and viii threads respectively. Skylake will of course besides arrive on mobile platforms and two-in 1 devices before the desktop release. If you lot find the slide deck below, specifically the 1 on the right, you will notice that Intel mentions "DDR3 and DDR4" in the "hereafter" department of the Mainstream segment. Now Intel has noted downwardly Haswell Micro-architecture, and then its near future is Broadwell and Skylake-S.

And then what does 'DDR3 and DDR4' support for the future generations of Intel Haswell hateful? Well, one choice could be offer some SKUs with DDR3 and other with DDR4, just that would be awfully inconvenient from a marketing and applied bespeak of view. Not only would that discourage growth (DDR3 users volition simply buy the DDR3 variant and stick with it) but that volition outcome in disparity between similar products: not an ideal scenario.No, a far easier option would be to innovate dual memory support using a Double IMC (Integrated Retentivity Circuit) on the processors. A question that comes to heed is whether Broadwell-k will do good from Double-IMCs likewise, or will the rift betwixt the high end and mainstream volition grow ever larger.

Intel believes that the pricing of DDR4 volition remain high; as will the demand of Skylake processors. Migration to DDR4 should be encouraged but you can't leave the majority of your user base of operations backside. The answer to this dilemma lies in the company introducing Skylake with both DDR3 and DDR4 support. Intel will favor the use of DDR4 memory but if this is correct than users volition not need to be worry almost ownership new RAMs and instead exist able to focus on the new micro-architecture and stride upwardly when they are prepare. DDR4 not only offers faster RAM retention with double the density but likewise offers a greatly lowered electrical foot print with reduced power requirements. DDR4 RAM can be clocked upto 3200Mhz and requires i.2V of juice to run. CAS latency volition vary from 9 to 24 (DDR3 wad v-xiv) while density increases from 4GB at viii banks to 8GB at 16 banks.

#Intel Skylake Processors could very easily offer both DDR3 and DDR4 via Dual-IMC blueprint. http://t.co/9ECaDUkeUp

— Usman Pirzada (@usmanpirzada) September 13, 2022