COMPUTER NEWS & TRENDS A-DATA DDR3-2000X      A-DATA has announced DDR3-2000X, which is at the moment about the fastest DDR3-memory in the world.      Targeting new market developments, A-DATA of Taiwan is the world’s second largest vendor of memory modules.      The company’s main product lines include memory modules, Flash memory drives/cards, and multimedia application products.      A-DATA’s corporate philosophy emphasizes constant innovation, first-rate quality and superior product performance; its innovative products have led the way in the memory industry.      A-DATA products have won many major Taiwan and international awards, including Germany’s iF Design Award and Reddot Award, Japan’s Good Design Award, TAITRA’s Best Choice Product Award, and Taiwan Excellence Gold Award.      To find out more about A-DATA and its products, you can visit the A-DATA website at www.adata.com.tw. Corsair 2GHz DDR3      Corsair (www.corsair.com) has announced today their NVIDIA 790i Ultra SLI high-performance DDR3 partner memory offerings, including a record-breaking 2Ghz module.      After extensive partnership efforts between NVIDIA and Corsair, the NVIDIA 790i Ultra SLI platform was found to exhibit extreme overclocking capabilities with the latest in DDR3 memory architectures.      All Corsair SLI-ready partner memory is pre-loaded with EPP2, the latest in memory performance specifications.      EPP2 is designed to deliver an automatic memory performance boost for enthusiasts when used with the 790i Ultra SLI platform.      “Corsair and NVIDIA have worked closely on next-generation gaming platforms using the latest DDR3 memory technologies. The EPP2 SPD memory specification, combined with the NVIDIA 790i Ultra SLI platform have allowed us to reach new overclocking performance levels from the 2GHz range and above,” said Jack Peterson, VP of Corporate Marketing at Corsair.      “As the recognized leader in high-performance enthusiast memory, we are excited about this new line of NVIDIA SLI-Certified memory modules,” continued Peterson.      Like other Corsair DDR2 products, DDR3 DOMINATOR and XMS3 DHX modules feature Corsair’s patent-pending DHX technology, an innovative quad-layer heat sink design that optimizes memory performance and reliability by maximizing thermal dissipation.      With DHX Technology, heat is removed via two paths: the leads of the BGA chips into the PCB (convective cooling) and the back of the BGA packages into the custom designed extruded aluminum heat sinks (conductive cooling).      All products are backed by a Lifetime Limited Warranty complete with customer support via telephone, email, forum and TechSupport Xpress troubleshooting guide. For more information on Corsair products and technology, please visit www.corsair.com. Hynix 2-Rank 8GB DDR2 RDIMM      Hynix Semiconductor has launched is 2-Rank 8GB PC2-4200 RDIMM, featuring MetaRAM’s MetaSDRAM technology.      The HYMP31GP72CUP4-C6 effectively doubles the memory capacity of AMD Opteron-based and Intel Xeon-based systems, while improving power efficiency by up to 30 percent when compared to industry standard 8GB 4-Rank or 4GB 2-Rank modules.      The MetaRAM technology allows the use of mainstream lower cost DRAM components in the manufacture of the next generation high density DIMMs, without increasing the number of memory ranks or the load on the CPU.      The 8GB 2-Rank RDIMM is built with mainstream 1Gb DDR2 SDRAMs instead of the significantly more expensive 2Gb, thus lowering the cost of the module.      The MetaSDRAM chipset consists of flow controllers and an access manager which sit between the memory controller and the DRAM.      It enables up to four times more mainstream DRAMs to be integrated into the DIMM without the need for any system level hardware or software changes.      The chipset makes multiple DRAMs look like a larger capacity DRAM to the memory controller resulting in high capacity memory modules that circumvent the normal limitations of the memory controller.      The HYMP31GP72CUP4-C6 8GB DDR2 RDIMM is available now in production quantities.      The 8GB DDR3 2-Rank RDIMM using the MetaRAM technology is under development and will be available in production quantities in 2H’08.      “Hynix is pleased to introduce this high capacity memory module enabled by MetaRAM technology,” said J.B. Kim, senior VP of Marketing at Hynix Semiconductor. “As a result of this product, we hope to see some exciting new applications, in the very near future.”      “Hynix has always been at the leading edge of DRAM innovation and they immediately saw the potential of our MetaSDRAM technology to improve customers’ overall compute performance by increasing the memory capacity,” said Suresh Rajan, MetaRAM’s VP of Business Development. “Their 8GB PC2-4200 R-DIMM offers twice the capacity of competitors’ 2-Rank Modules, works in existing IT systems with no modifications and is very energy efficient.”      Further information about Hynix is available at www.hynix.com.      MetaRAM is a fabless semiconductor company focused on improving memory performance and is headquartered in San Jose, California. For more information, go to www.metaram.com.