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Any talk of DRAMs is likely to induce sleep in most of our readers, but we are willing to bet that the pending arrival of DDR3 memory is going to ward off an attacks of Zzzzs! DDR3 is for personal computers, what HGH is to baseball players.

Micron Technology and Qimonda AG have started sampling the next generation memory chips. These are almost twice as fast as the current memory chips gracing our Macbook Pro, and consume around same amount of power. The chips are likely to go on sales in 2008, depending on when Intel and others make compatible chipsets available.