Rambus targets agentic AI workloads with faster client memory chipset
Rambus Inc. today announced a complete DDR5 9600 client memory module chipset designed to push PC memory speeds to 9,600 megatransfers per second, targeting the bandwidth and capacity demands of agentic artificial intelligence workloads on desktops and laptops.
The new offering from the chip and silicon intellectual property company combines a second-generation client clock driver, dubbed CKD02, with a PMIC5120 power management integrated circuit and a serial presence detect hub. Together, the three chips provide what Rambus describes as a complete solution for clocked DDR5 modules operating between 8,000 and 9,600 MT/s.
The chipset is built for the emerging CUDIMM and CQDIMM module formats used in desktops and the CSODIMM format used in laptops. Those clocked module designs are intended to overcome the signal integrity, clock jitter and timing instability problems that emerge when DDR5 memory is pushed beyond 6,400 MT/s. An on-module clock driver conditions and redistributes the clock signal across the dynamic random-access memory chips on the module, allowing higher data rates without the degradation that would otherwise occur.
