As it almost always happens, this first initial model of RAM memory is designed for industrial environments (they almost always develop first for the professional field and then it reaches ordinary users), but as always it may mean the beginning of a new trend in the market that could reach our desktop PCs in the near future.
The first DDR5 RAM with an “alarm” system
As we said, these RAM memories are initially designed for industrial environments, since they will be available in U-DIMM, SO-DIMM, ECC-DIMM and R-DIMM formats, all DDR5 at a speed of 5600 MHz and with only 1.1V of voltage to operate. They should meet the needs of future generations like Intel Raptor Lake and AMD Raphael-X, with high-performance specifications that meet JEDEC standards.
TeamGroup has been bringing great innovations to the industrial market for years, which, as we said, are eventually reaching the consumer market. The peculiarity of this DDR5 RAM memory is that it has a kind of visual and audible alarm system that combines RGB lighting effects with an audible warning system: thus, when the system is working correctly, the memory modules light up in green color, while when they find a problem they do so alternately in blue and red, while beeps are emitted to attract the user’s attention.
Of course, the alarm system is configurable by the user, being able to adjust the temperature parameters for example. So, continuing with the example, we could configure this RAM it lights green when the temperature is below 60ºC, it turns yellow when it reaches 70ºC, it lights red and blue alternately when it exceeds 80ºC, and if it exceeds 90ºC it also emits a series of beeps to alert us of the problem. As you can see in the image above, the memory module itself has a small buzzer built in for this which does not require any additional connection.
At the moment TeamGroup has not revealed the price or the date of availability of this RAM, so we will have to wait to see when it will reach industrial environments and, above all, if it will reach conventional desktop PCs.
Will we see this technology in desktop PCs?
In fact, apart from the acoustic alarm system, it is something that we already have and that does not require too much effort. For example, with the CORSAIR RGB memory modules, we can configure alarms in its software, iCUE, so that at a certain temperature level the color of the memory changes, the program we want is executed or even the PC power supply. Of course, this alert system is only valid for the temperature.
So the only substantial difference is the inclusion of this little speaker in the memory modules themselves which supports these alerts via beeps, although it’s true that what we have now is software-based and not by hardware and furthermore it is temperature limited. However, we thought it wouldn’t be difficult to implement it in hardware and add this little speaker, so it’s not unreasonable to think that we might see it on our desktop computers one day. .
