The emerging DDR3 memory standard will extend the performance range of DDR memories considerably, while maintaining some amount of backwards compatibility with the existing DDR2 memory standard. It is ...

This is because the pin configuration for a DDR3 RAM is different from that of DDR2 or DDR4, this is why you need to make sure that the RAM you buy must be compatible with your computer.

Over the past 25 years we have seen the transition from SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic RAM) to DDR (Double Data Rate) SDRAM, and then to DDR2, DDR3 and DDR4 on a cadence of five year cycles. Currently we ...