IDT receives OEM supplier qualification for DDR4 chipset

The DDR4 chipsets, which are comprised of registers, data buffers and temp sensors, are claimed to provide high performance, power efficiency and reliability. For modules using it's DDR4 chipset, IDT has shipped more than 1m DDR4 registers. Using the software suite provided with the DDR4 chipset, server and storage manufacturers can validate and optimise their platforms. The DDR4 chipsets on Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 family-based servers are now available in production shipments.

“Servers based on the Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 processor family with DDR4 memory modules using the IDT chipset deliver performance and power returns that are compelling and immediate across a host of applications and workloads,” said Rami Sethi, Vice President and General Manager, Memory Interface Products Division at IDT. “Having been the lead driver of DDR4 memory interface devices from specification to silicon and now to platform launch, we are pleased to see the industry transition underway.”

“IDT has been a close technology contributor as we’ve built a new ecosystem around the latest Intel Xeon processor family,” said Geof Findley, Director of PMO Memory Enabling and Apps Engineering at Intel. “The Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors together with IDT’s DDR4 memory interface will provide customers with the additional performance they desire for memory-intensive workloads.” 

“Micron has had a long and successful working relationship with IDT through many generations of DDR technology,” said Robert Feurle, Vice President of Compute and Networking Marketing at Micron. “Integrating IDT’s DDR4 chipset solutions with Micron RDIMM and LRDIMM products enables us to deliver best-in-class compute performance for the enterprise and cloud server markets.” 

“My team at the Sizing Servers Lab of Howest conducted benchmarking of the DDR4 LRDIMMs running real-life work-loads,” said Johan De Gelas, Senior Editor at Anandtech. “Throughput of our Content Delivery Network test was twice as high, and we measured up to 18% better HPC performance on a server equipped with DDR4 LRDIMMs compared to the same server with DDR4 RDIMMs."