The memory manufacturing plant recently commissioned by JSE-listed Rectron Holdings, one of South Africa`s largest IT-focused distributors, is to manufacture new super high speed Double Data Rate (DDR) chips.
Rectron CEO Mark Lu says a beta test carried out last week represents a "first" for South Africa, as this technology is not yet widely available globally.
"DDR memory is the highest-bandwidth and lowest latency PC memory technology available and will enable PCs to deliver new levels of performance on math-intensive applications such as video editing, CAD/CAM, scientific applications, and Internet content creation," says Lu.
"It will also make its way into high-end server platforms, driven by the performance, capacity, cost and infrastructure continuity of next-generation technology."
Rectron joins an elite band of DDR memory global manufacturers.
"The DDR chipset will be installed in Rectron`s own PC boards and supplied to local OEM PC manufacturers. Using local manufacturing processes we will be able to manufacture the chips at cost levels that are in line with today`s mainstream PC memory costs and more cost-effectively locally than to import them from abroad," says Lu.
"The Rectron plant is able to produce memory to order within a period of 24 hours, significantly less than the average two weeks for imported memory shipments," he adds.
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