DDR3, or Double Data Rate 3, promises data rates up to 1600Mb/s, which is more than double current DDR. DDR3 also uses a reduced supply voltage from 1.8V to 1.5V, which will lower power consumption resulting in less heat dissipation and an extended battery life in mobile systems. Significant improvements have been made in package, pinout, and signaling for higher-speed operation of DDR3 memory..

Bill Lauer, senior director of marketing for Micron's memory group, said the company plans to be in production on 1-gigabit DDR3 chips and offer samples of 2-gigabit DDR3 chips in middle of 2007.

"DDR3 is the memory solution of choice for next-generation, high-performance computing and consumer systems, offering significant advantages including lower power consumption, higher throughput rates and increased module densities" Lauer said.

DDR3 market is expected to appear in PC application in 2007 with the introduction of 512-megabit and 1-gigabit devices operating at speeds of 800MHz and higher

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