Oversimplified: Once or twice in a decade, the self-elected council in charge of such things throws new memory technologies into a basket and calls the basket DDR-whatever-the-next-number-is. Then, a few years later, a company like SK Hynix manages to turn that basket into the picnic we’ve all been waiting for.
Unlike the iterative upgrades that define the successive releases of most PC parts, memory upgrades are significant . DDR4 is now six years behind the times and DDR








