Micron DDR5 Brings Enhanced Performance and Reliability to 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor Family

Shanghai, China, January 16 , 2023 – Micron Technology , Inc. ( NASDAQ: MU) recently announced that the company’s DDR5 server memory product portfolio for data centers has entered the fourth generation ^Validated in the ^Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family. Micron’s DDR5 delivers double the memory bandwidth of previous generations to power the rapidly growing number of processor cores in today’s data centers. Upgrading to DDR5 will bring higher bandwidth and help fully free up the computing power of each processor, thereby relieving the performance bottleneck it may face in the next few years. The combination of Micron DDR5 and 4th Generation ^{Intel® Xeon®} Scalable processors can power a variety of workloads. For example, SPECjbb ^[1] achieved nearly 49% performance improvement over its predecessor in the critical jOPS (Java operations per second) benchmark. In addition to higher memory bandwidth and enhanced performance, Micron’s DDR5 memory features features such as on-chip error correction code (ODECC) and limited faults to improve overall data center reliability. The ODECC function corrects single-bit errors and detects multi-bit errors.

Raj Hazra, Micron’s senior vice president and general manager of the Computing and Networking Division, said: “Intel is a very important ecosystem partner for us, and the in-depth cooperation between the two parties has enabled Micron to maintain a leading position in the industry’s transition to DDR5. This verification work enables us to provide key solutions for data center customers, helping them effectively deal with complex requirements and challenges, and transform massive data into deep insights.”

“The 4th Generation ^Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids ⁾ can deliver dramatic performance gains for a variety of workloads, such as the fast-growing artificial intelligence , analytics and networking, storage and mission-critical workloads. The processor supports a wide range of memory solutions in the industry. Micron’s fully validated DDR5 server memory is a key link in Intel’s comprehensive validation matrix, and we will Customers are offered greater reliability and scalable performance, as well as more flexible infrastructure and configuration.”

Through close cooperation with Lenovo, the combination of Micron DDR5 and 4th Generation ^Intel® Xeon® ^8480H Platinum processors can increase the processing capacity of SAP workloads compared to the combination of Micron DDR4 and 3rd Generation ^Intel® Xeon® ⁸³⁸⁰ Platinum processors 43% ^[2] .

Kamran Amini, Lenovo vice president and general manager of the Server and Storage Division of the Infrastructure Solutions Business Group, said: “With the growth of predictive analytics business, customers in various industries are expecting memory solutions to provide higher effective bandwidth. Support complex workloads at the edge and cloud. Together with Micron, we fully considered the needs of these performance-intensive workloads throughout the development and verification stages, and launched the ThinkSystem V3 server powered by DDR5, ushering in a new era of memory performance.”

Micron played a key role in JEDEC’s development of the DDR5 memory specification. Micron’s Technology Enablement Program (TEP), the industry’s first program of its kind, gives system designers access to key internal resources and samples for DDR5 verification early in a project and continues to support them through the customer verification phase. Micron is committed to collaborating across the ecosystem and will continue to invest in leading technology and product roadmaps.

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• Micron Data Center Solutions
• DDR5 Boosts Next-Generation Data Center Performance
• Micron Technology Enablement (TEP ) Program
• Micron DDR5 Offers Twice the Effective Bandwidth