{"id":110114,"date":"2020-07-17T18:22:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T01:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/ddr5-memory-spec-is-finally-official-but-hold-onto-your-ddr4-ram-modules"},"modified":"2020-07-17T18:22:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T01:22:35","slug":"ddr5-memory-spec-is-finally-official-but-hold-onto-your-ddr4-ram-modules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/ddr5-memory-spec-is-finally-official-but-hold-onto-your-ddr4-ram-modules","title":{"rendered":"DDR5 memory spec is finally official but hold onto your DDR4 RAM modules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ddr5-memory-spec-is-finally-official-but-hold-onto-your-ddr4-ram-modules2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At long last, the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association has officially finalized the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jedec.org\/news\/pressreleases\/jedec-publishes-new-ddr5-standard-advancing-next-generation-high-performance\">specification for DDR5 SDRAM<\/a>, which will serve as a blueprint for memory makers and future CPU platform designs as the industry shifts away from DDR4. However, it won\u2019t happen overnight. More on that in a moment.<\/p>\n<p>JEDEC is the industry group that develops and sets open memory standards, and it has more than 300 members, including AMD, Intel, Micron, Samsung, and a host of other major players in the semiconductor industry. JEDEC\u2019s job is important because without the recognized standards that emerge, we would potentially have to navigate through a proprietary minefield when building a PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At long last, the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association has officially finalized the specification for DDR5 SDRAM, which will serve as a blueprint for memory makers and future CPU platform designs as the industry shifts away from DDR4. However, it won\u2019t happen overnight. More on that in a moment. JEDEC is the industry group that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}