Semiconductor Manufacturing and Design reported on the recent Jedec Server Memory Conference in San Jose. That article is titled “Facebook Wants New and Cheaper Memories.” We also attended that conference and our opinion of the presentations, “New applications like Facebook are driving the industry,” was included in that coverage of the conference.
Servers will continue to be one of the most important applications defining future memory products. As we pointed to in the previous blog on a completely different memory configuration, “servers” clearly designates a function and not a specific architecture. We maintain that the wide range of server tasks, as further demonstrated by Facebook’s categories of server configurations shown in the article, provides the greatest opportunity for experimentation with new memory configurations and performance attributes.
As has already been demonstrated by the substitution of NAND for DRAM in other server applications in which the targeted performance attribute was the reduction in power consumption, server designers are not hesitant to break previously-held assumptions of memory cost/performance when responding to the new and shifting requirements for system-level performance attributes.
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