DRAM test lab opened in Munich Germany

Elpida Memory has opened its High Speed DRAM Test Laboratory at its Munich Design Center.

The Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology, sent his greetings and respect and welcomed through a representative Elpida customers and officials from companies that will be affiliated with the design center's work. Representing Elpida were president and CEO Yukio Sakamoto, Chief Technology Officer Takao Adachi and Markus Balb, president of Elpida Memory Europe GmbH.

The Munich Design Center began operations in May as a graphics DRAM (GDDR) development facility and has been focusing on GDDR design work since then. However, with today's opening ceremony for the high-speed DRAM test laboratory, the Center now reaches full-scale operations. The new test laboratory is equipped with high-speed memory testing and analytical equipment for use in planning and developing the features of new and next-generation products and supporting actual product design, development and evaluation. The Center will also conduct design and development activities that incorporate operational testing and analysis of actual systems.

In August of this year Elpida acquired GDDR3/GDDR5 design assets from the Germany company Qimonda AG. In December Elpida plans to begin sample shipments of GDDR3 products that have already been evaluated within the Munich Test laboratory of Elpida
Elpida has developed a 1-gigabit GDDR5 memory chip (product name: EDW1032BABG) that operates at a high speed of 6Gbps.

The new chips details:

Product name: EDW1032BABG
Memory density: 1-gigabit
Speed: 6Gbps
Configuration: 32-megabit x32 / (64-megabit x16)
Special features: Two I/O configurations -x32 and x16 - customers can use in a variety of systems

In addition, Elpida itself is developing a 2-gigabit GDDR5 that it plans to begin mass manufacturing in the second half of 2010.
Elpida said it is now involved in all areas of the DRAM market such as commodity DRAMs, GDDR for the graphics market, high-speed XDR DRAM and Mobile RAM for mobile equipment.

For more details visit www.elpida.com