Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, March 25th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Remember that onion headline, F everything, we're doing five blades?

Well, Samsung says, welcome to the DDR 5 era.

There's more tech testimony on Capitol Hill today.

That Arizona bill that would have regulated the App Store

mysteriously disappears.

Deliberu is facing a full-on revolt, and my wife covers the Chrissy Tegan Twitter News.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

The standard was settled on years ago and some smaller manufacturers have released early products here and there, but everyone was waiting for this to make it official. Samsung has announced 512 gigabyte DDR 5 memory chips,

still in the verification stage, that deliver over twice the performance of DDR 4 at up to 7,200 MBPS for advanced

workloads.

We are now officially in the DDR 5 era, quoting hot hardware.

As we inch closer to Intel's Alder Lake and Amd's Zen4 architectures, late this year and

or early next year, barring any delays, memory makers have started announcing advances in DDR5 memory, which will deliver a big increase in bandwidth.

We've even seen some DDR5 module launches.

Samsung, however, has managed to separate itself from the pack on announcing what it says

is the industry's first 512 gigabyte memory module based on high-K metalgate

or hk-mG process technology.

According to Samsung, it's 512 gigabyte DDR5 memory module delivers more

than twice the performance of DDR4 at up to 7,200 megabits per second.

This, the company says, will be beneficial for the most

extreme compute-hungry and high bandwidth workloads. The 512 GB capacity

...