DDR5 to jump off the drawing board in 2018 The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association has revealed that a full standard for DDR5 memory will arrive in June 2018, along with a new NVDIMM-P standard to house the memory, connect it to computers and protect the contents of RAM. DDR5 has been under development since late 2015, when Samsung and others tossed in some cash …
What I want to know is when will I be able to use/afford it on my computers. I've still got plenty of DDR3, and I see it's still very popular. If it's going to be in less that 2 years until DDR5 is common then it would seem that DDR4 is going to be a losing proposition unless there's a big price differential.
You're right, but if it's released in 2018 DDR5 could well not see widespread deployment until 2020 or 2021.
We may well have bigger things to worry about then: 2020 is officially the year when all hell breaks loose - it's when Windows 7 falls out of extended support.
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Ahh, persistent memory, another government sponsored feature perhaps? Malware can sit in RAM surviving undetected through power cycles, or even moving from one motherboard to another, independent of the operating system. Your boot CD or recovery tool of choice will no doubt be oblivious to well thought out malware disguising itself on boot. Don't mention the possibilities for interfering with common software installers. Yet another feature we don't need with enormous risks not properly thought through.
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