IDT high-speed multiplexer for DDR4 NVDIMM technology selected as preferred supplier by Micron

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Integrated Device Technology (IDT) recently introduced a high-speed multiplexer that expands the company's existing portfolio of DDR4 products targeting the nascent NVDIMM (non-volatile dual in-line memory module) ecosystem. Additionally, Micron Technology has selected IDT as its preferred supplier for NVDIMM multiplexers, which target the enterprise and cloud server markets.

NVDIMM is a new architecture that provides data persistence to DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) by allowing data to be backed up to non-volatile memory, such as flash memory, during special events including catastrophic power failure. Multiplexers are key components of NVDIMM architecture, isolating the host controller from the DRAM memory during "save" and "restore" operations between DRAM and non-volatile memory.

Multiplexers have traditionally placed a burden on the signal integrity of the memory channel, which can compromise the speed of the operation. IDT's high-speed multiplexer is designed to mitigate the signal integrity impact to the memory channel while enabling DDR4 NVDIMM applications to run at bus rates of up to 2133 MT/s (megatransfers per second) and beyond.