Christopher E. Cox

An analytical study of DRAM power consumption across memory technologies

The memory industrys DRAM strategy is significantly bifurcated based on usage models. Commodity memory, DDR1, DDR2, and DDR3, has been focused on delivering the highest capacity and performance possible for server, desktop, and mobile (laptop and netbook) applications. Separately, low power memory, LPDDR1 and LPDDR2, has focused on providing the best solution for small form factor, low capacity, and low power applications, such as the hand held market segment (phones, tablets, etc.). The power consumption needs in tablets and Ultrabooks™ requires power consumption levels of low power memory, but in a high volume environment.