Elpida Memory – Active Components

Elpida has a great deal of expertise designing standard and low-power DDR3, GDDR5, XDR memory, and has already shipped prototype Wide IO RAM. Elpida Memory, Inc was a corporation established in 1999 that developed, designed, manufactured and sold dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) products. It was also a semiconductor foundry. The company became a fully owned subsidiary of Micron Technology on July 31, 2013.

Elpida Memory, Inc., was one of the world’s top producers of DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) chips, and was the only remaining major DRAM manufacturer based in Japan. Elpida develops DRAMs for the three major market segments: Servers, Personal Computers, and the increasingly important Digital Consumer Electronics & Mobile Devices market. The company’s production includes DDR (double data rate) and Rambus-based DRAMs. Formed in 1999 through the merger of the DRAM operations of NEC and Hitachi, Elpida was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Elpida Memory, the third largest Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) manufacturer in the world, developed the industry's first 4-gigabit next-generation mobile memory chips for smart phones, tablet PCs and other mobile devices. The new DRAM achieves compliance with the cutting-edge "Wide IO" international standard for mobile memory and has a data transfer rate that is four times faster than current mobile memory chips. Hence, it supports dramatic improvement in video and audio functionality. By combining its advanced low-power consumption technology with its high-end package technology, Elpida is working to promote Wide IO Mobile RAM as next generation standard choice for mobile applications.

LPDDR3 is another of Elpida's new next-generation mobile memory. This new chip achieves a data transfer rate that is twice as fast as LPDDR2. A single LPDDR3 has a data transfer rate of 6.4 GB/s or 12.8GB/s based on a two-chip configuration for high-end mobile devices. When compared with LPDDR2 on an identical speed basis, LPDDR3 consumes roughly 25% less power, enabling it to extend the operating time of smartphones and tablet devices.

July 2013 Micron announced that it closed the deal to acquire 100 percent of Elpida’s equity. As part of the Elpida integration process, Micron expanding to include more products and part numbers. You will see Elpida part numbers listed for several technologies, including DDR3, LPDRAM, and GDDR5.