Infineon Announces Availability of DDR400 Components Supporting Intel High Performance Roadmap; New PC3200 DIMMs to Boost PC Main Memory Performance.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 2003 Infineon Technologies For the raceway, see . Infineon Technologies AG (ISIN: DE0006231004, FWB: IFX, NYSE: IFX) was founded in April 1999 when the semiconductor operations of parent company, Siemens AG, were spun off to form a separate legal entity. AG (FSE/NYSE:IFX IFX - ["Type Reconstruction with First-Class Polymorphic Values", J. O'Toole et al, SIGPLAN Notices 24(7):207-217 (Jul 1989)]. ) today announced the availability of a family of unbuffered DIMMs (dual-in-line memory modules) in 128MB (megabyte), 256MB and 512MB densities. Based on 256Mb (megabit) Double-Data-Rate 400 Mbps (DDR (Double Data Rate) Refers to an SDRAM memory chip that increases performance by doubling the effective data rate of the frontside bus. For more details, see SDRAM. DDR - Double Data Rate Random Access Memory 400) memory, the modules have been validated as compliant with Intel specifications and designed to meet the requirements of the proposed JEDEC The division of the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA) that deals with semiconductor standards (officially, the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association of EIA). JEDEC was formed in 1958 when the Joint Electron Tube Engineering Council (JETEC) split into two Joint Electron Device PC3200 3.2 GBps (gigabyte-per-second) bandwidth specification for use in the main memory of high-performance desktop PCs and workstations. "We will see DDR400 support the highest performance Pentium(R) 4 processor desktop and workstation systems in 2003. We are pleased that Infineon will support our roadmap by offering Intel compliant DDR400 memory for these applications," said Pete MacWilliams, Intel Senior Fellow. "Our leading-edge fab process, with its high number of die per wafer, allows us to produce modules in volume almost instantaneously when the market begins to emerge," said Heinz Florian, Vice President of Marketing and Logistics for Infineon Memory Products. "By the end of this year, we expect that DDR400 will be the memory of choice for high performance desktops and workstations, and we are pleased to be able to support the transition to these next generation systems." Price and Availability Produced in the 0.14 micron process running in full production volume throughout Infineon's 300mm and 200mm DRAM fab cluster, the PC3200 DIMMs and memory chips are available now. Sample pricing for the DIMMs ranges from US$30.00 to US$100.00, depending upon density. The 256 Mb DDR400 components are priced at US$6.00 in sample quantities. Additional information about Infineon's DDR400 memory chips and PC3200 DIMMs can be found at http://www.infineon.com/highspeed-DDR. Information regarding Intel-validated components can be found at http://developer.intel.com/technology/memory/ddr/valid/dram_results.htm and http://developer.intel.com/technology/memory/ddr/valid/dimm_results.htm About Infineon Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, Germany, offers semiconductor and system solutions for the automotive and industrial sectors, for applications in the wired communications markets, secure mobile solutions as well as memory products. With a global presence, Infineon operates in the US from San Jose, CA, in the Asia-Pacific region from Singapore and in Japan from Tokyo. In the fiscal year 2002 (ending September), the company achieved sales of Euro 5.21 billion with about 30,400 employees worldwide. Infineon is listed on the DAX index of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange Frankfurt Stock Exchange The largest of Germany's eight securities exchanges, operated by Deutsche Borse AS. and on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. (ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors : IFX). Further information is available at www.infineon.com. This news release and a press photo is available at http://www.infineon.com/news |
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