#datacenter dynamics

DDR4 deployment averts “thermal nightmare”

Writing for DataCenter Dynamics, Scott Fulton notes that recent benchmark results indicate DDR4 is at least partially, and perhaps wholly, responsible for performance gains in low-end and mid-tier servers. In addition, DDR4 may, at best, mitigate performance drop-offs in the high-end.

However, says Fulton, the industry is merely at the early stage of new technology adoption with DDR4.

“As JEDEC’s…