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Day of memory frenzy threatens overclockers' sanity
TCCD chips taken hostage
By Wil Harris: 星期三 09 二月 2005, 09:46
GET ONTO the main floor and listen up, people. It's nine in the morning, and we have a new threat to the security of the world overclocking economy. Samsung is discontinuing its TCCD memory chips, we learned exclusively just hours ago.
When we got the phone call from our agent Eva, out in Tapei, we knew what was coming. We'd heard chatter from the industry that Samsung was going to play this hand. Our only intel suggested that it would be some time this month. Now we know the full extent of the attack.
Let's bring you up to speed: TCCD memory chips are used in some of the top-rated DDR modules from the big names. Kingston, OCZ and Corsair all use the chips to power their low-latency PC3200 parts. The TCCD can run with latency settings of 2-2-2-5 for maximum overclockability. These modules are dangerous, folks.
With these chips gone, there is going to be a big gap in the market waiting to be filled. Samsung hopes that this shortage is going encourage the big memory players to push harder with DDR2 rather than continuing to sell high-end DDR parts. They're playing aggressively for sure, and they mean business.
We do have previous form for this, so let's correlate the data. Our files show us that it's not the first time enthusiast memory has suffered a serious attack. Last year, the Winbond BH-5 chip was the ultimate overclocker, before Winbond stopped manufacturing it. TCCD stepped into its toasty shoes as a product filling a demand, and we have our suspicions that things aren't going to turn out just the way that Samsung planned them.
We're working up a scenario where Micron, one of the largest RAM chip manufacturers, would create an equivalent chip and ship it exclusively to Crucial technologies, who would then be the only company capable of supplying top-rated enthusiast RAM, through its Ballistix line. This would be a great play for them, but we don't think they're that smart. Such an outfit couldn't pull off something this big.
Right now, our best working guess is that one of the other big manufacturers is going to take the Jack Bauer role and end this outrageously memory hostage-taking, by coming up with a new plan to ship the market its fill of high-end memory. It's a daring counter-play that would require perfect execution, but it just might work. It could, however, take a little longer than 24 hours. µ
術真術假無人知.......但是When we got the phone call from our agent Eva, out in Tapei, we knew what was coming.......消息從臺北出來的奶 :??:
不會吧我都還沒買說 ;ng; .....................不過這術粉有可能的 ;rr; ;x;
cp=copy and past:
Day of memory frenzy threatens overclockers' sanity
TCCD chips taken hostage
By Wil Harris: 星期三 09 二月 2005, 09:46
GET ONTO the main floor and listen up, people. It's nine in the morning, and we have a new threat to the security of the world overclocking economy. Samsung is discontinuing its TCCD memory chips, we learned exclusively just hours ago.
When we got the phone call from our agent Eva, out in Tapei, we knew what was coming. We'd heard chatter from the industry that Samsung was going to play this hand. Our only intel suggested that it would be some time this month. Now we know the full extent of the attack.
Let's bring you up to speed: TCCD memory chips are used in some of the top-rated DDR modules from the big names. Kingston, OCZ and Corsair all use the chips to power their low-latency PC3200 parts. The TCCD can run with latency settings of 2-2-2-5 for maximum overclockability. These modules are dangerous, folks.
With these chips gone, there is going to be a big gap in the market waiting to be filled. Samsung hopes that this shortage is going encourage the big memory players to push harder with DDR2 rather than continuing to sell high-end DDR parts. They're playing aggressively for sure, and they mean business.
We do have previous form for this, so let's correlate the data. Our files show us that it's not the first time enthusiast memory has suffered a serious attack. Last year, the Winbond BH-5 chip was the ultimate overclocker, before Winbond stopped manufacturing it. TCCD stepped into its toasty shoes as a product filling a demand, and we have our suspicions that things aren't going to turn out just the way that Samsung planned them.
We're working up a scenario where Micron, one of the largest RAM chip manufacturers, would create an equivalent chip and ship it exclusively to Crucial technologies, who would then be the only company capable of supplying top-rated enthusiast RAM, through its Ballistix line. This would be a great play for them, but we don't think they're that smart. Such an outfit couldn't pull off something this big.
Right now, our best working guess is that one of the other big manufacturers is going to take the Jack Bauer role and end this outrageously memory hostage-taking, by coming up with a new plan to ship the market its fill of high-end memory. It's a daring counter-play that would require perfect execution, but it just might work. It could, however, take a little longer than 24 hours. µ
術真術假無人知.......但是When we got the phone call from our agent Eva, out in Tapei, we knew what was coming.......消息從臺北出來的奶 :??:
不會吧我都還沒買說 ;ng; .....................不過這術粉有可能的 ;rr; ;x;
