Samsung Samples 16 GB Server DDR4

Samsung prepping for 16 GB DDR4 release.

DDR4 is not expected to reach significant market adoption until 2014, but hardware makers are on track to deliver the technology in time for system integration in 2013.

Samsung said that it has successfully sampled the industry's first 16 GB DDR4 modules using "30 nm-class" memory chips, which refers to a production process resulting in 30-39 nm devices.

Next year, the company expects to build 32 GB modules with 20 nm-class (20-29 nm) devices that will reach up to 3,200 Mb/s bandwidth. DDR4 will drop the operating voltage from 1.35 volts in DDR3 to 1.2 volts in DDR4 and "reduce power consumption by approximately 40 percent."

DDR4, however, is still in its final stages of development and the standard is planned to be delivered sometime next month.