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Will DDR3L get into mobile DRAM?

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May 7, 2012

My last posting http://bit.ly/IFbEV2 drew some questions on whether DDR3L will get into mobile DRAM. I asked our experts and here are their responses. The simple answer is no.  DDR3L is designed to be a PC type DRAM that, due to price and commoditized availability, also suits the embedded applications space of digital home, networking, etc.  As a PC SDRAM, DDR3L relies on an internal DLL to align the read data strobe to the clock (effectively removing the clock insertion delay between clock and strobe).

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