Philips Reportedly Jumps Into The Memory Market

[darknessblade]

Summary

Philips Might be Jumping into the Memory market

 

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According to some leaked photographs that originated from the BoardChannels forum, Philips will allegedly start selling memory soon. The company is readying both DDR4 and DDR5 memory kits to compete with the best RAM that's on the market.

 

My thoughts

For now its just Wait and see, how the Philips Memory modules stack up against existing brands like Corsair, G-skill, etc

 

Sources

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/philips-reportedly-jumps-into-the-memory-market

https://devandgear.com/news/philips-reportedly-jumps-into-the-memory-market/

https://www.techspot.com/news/93778-alleged-leak-suggests-philips-may-planning-enter-ram.html

 

http://www.boardchannels.com.cn/thread-111682-1-1.html

[Somerandomtechyboi]

"All new philips ram kit, 35w lightbulb included inside of the ram sticks, youll need to buy a new philips ram kit when that lightbulb dies in 3 months"

[manikyath]

philips may be a good memory manufacturer, because everyone remembers back when they had philips devices. /s

[leadeater]

So Phillips DDR5-5200 Hue?

 

At least we know they'll get the RGB right.

[leadeater]

Ok not to be a party pooper but this appears to be fake to me

 

 

That's not a SODIMM....

[mr moose]

14 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Ok not to be a party pooper but this appears to be fake to me

 

 

That's not a SODIMM....

It can't be sodimm because everything phillip's makes is sobright.

[suicidalfranco]

1 hour ago, mr moose said:

It can't be sodimm because everything phillip's makes is sobright.

 I died XD

[Rauten]

2 hours ago, mr moose said:

It can't be sodimm because everything phillip's makes is sobright.

Excuse me mods, where's the button to report posts for felonious dad jokes?

 

The other picture doesn't make this look any more legitimate, I mean... if this ain't photoshopped, I'm the Queen of England.

[Doobeedoo]

Yet Crucial quits so odd.

[Bombastinator]

Philips is a general electronics company like GE.  Considering how overpriced ddr5 is atm I’ll take any additional competition I see

[da na]

2 hours ago, Rauten said:

Excuse me mods, where's the button to report posts for felonious dad jokes?

 

The other picture doesn't make this look any more legitimate, I mean... if this ain't photoshopped, I'm the Queen of England.

Haha looks like the things we made in 4th grade computer class in Google Drawings...

 

I mean, any new hardware is good but now of all times to get into producing microchips...

Also they're not making the chips if this image is at all accurate. Those are Micron chips on the board looks like, perhaps they just buy the chips and slap em on there...

[Forbidden Wafer]

4 hours ago, leadeater said:

So Phillips DDR5-5200 Hue?

 

At least we know they'll get the RGB right.

As a BR, Hue sounds fantastic.

[IPD]

Let me guess, this will be a name-only thing and everything about this product offering will reek of mainland China.  Oh sure, Philips will still be a Dutch company...but who knows what their subsidiaries will be.

 

China knows that "super happy mega joy bountiful harvest tech uber fun fun brand" doesn't portend reliability, quality or longevity to foreign markets--so snapping up long-term, reliable names in the industry is how they can (at least temporarily) bilk consumers into believing old names with CCP quality.

 

I mean, people still residually trusted NewEgg with its new overlords...and only gradually started to distrust them after several years.  That's years of profit where your ruse can work.

[PocketNerd]

This is only good if they're also making the memory modules that go in said RAM sticks.

 

If they're rebadging or outsourcing from say, SKHynex, then this only makes supply issues worse.

[Salv8 (sam)]

11 hours ago, leadeater said:

Ok not to be a party pooper but this appears to be fake to me

 

 

That's not a SODIMM....

yea that logo on the dimm module itself looks like it had it's perspective warped in Photoshop.

good thing i always keep my salt on me.

[Bombastinator]

8 hours ago, Mel0nMan said:

Haha looks like the things we made in 4th grade computer class in Google Drawings...

 

I mean, any new hardware is good but now of all times to get into producing microchips...

Also they're not making the chips if this image is at all accurate. Those are Micron chips on the board looks like, perhaps they just buy the chips and slap em on there...

It sort of makes sense if you’ve been planning to jump in to do it now when a new ddr is just coming out.  It would be a perfect time except for world events.  Phillips is huge.  They dwarf the other memory makers with the exception of Samsung.  They’ve got buying power and prices for ddr5 atm are ridiculous.  They can make a quick profit and grab a bunch of market share at the same time.  Seems like a smart move to me atm. 

[mr moose]

23 hours ago, Rauten said:

Excuse me mods, where's the button to report posts for felonious dad jokes?

 

[WolframaticAlpha]

On 3/16/2022 at 3:03 PM, mr moose said:

It can't be sodimm because everything phillip's makes is sobright.

Congratulations, you have won the internet.

[Guest]

On 3/16/2022 at 10:43 AM, Bombastinator said:

Philips is a general electronics company like GE.  Considering how overpriced ddr5 is atm I’ll take any additional competition I see

I don't think Philips is like GE.  I thought GE worked.  Philips tv's for example don't give a lot of hdmi stick room, they pull about 10 frames per second from the signal, they put weird mathematics to simulate 60 frames per second from that 10 percent.

[Bombastinator]

40 minutes ago, Stephen7 said:

I don't think Philips is like GE.  I thought GE worked.  Philips tv's for example don't give a lot of hdmi stick room, they pull about 10 frames per second from the signal, they put weird mathematics to simulate 60 frames per second from that 10 percent.

Not sure those numbers are right with an ability to create 60fps from 10 fps they would have tech which would own them the video card market

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Bombastinator said:

Not sure those numbers are right with an ability to create 60fps from 10 fps they would have tech which would own them the video card market

no, it is tech that sucks.  it morphs six frames, 10 times a second. Then the lie that the morphed frames are what live frames would have been.  Well, they own a big portion of the market, because honest capable trained people don't compare the end result.  I don't want to know why you would prefer a morphed frame.

[Bombastinator]

13 hours ago, Stephen7 said:

no, it is tech that sucks.  it morphs six frames, 10 times a second. Then the lie that the morphed frames are what live frames would have been.  Well, they own a big portion of the market, because honest capable trained people don't compare the end result.  I don't want to know why you would prefer a morphed frame.

Does it look ok?  People seem to be OK with screen expansion stuff like DLSS.  I suppose it would depend on how much different it was.  This sounds like automated tweening.  That’s already done with animation.  What I find interesting, is that they could easily triple that sample.  If they can get even 90 or 100 fps out of a 60 fps image they’ve really got something

[AudiTTFan]

I'm assuming the modules will have incandescent lights built in, since that's about as modern of a Philips product as 99% of people probably have at the moment

[Bombastinator]

3 hours ago, AudiTTFan said:

I'm assuming the modules will have incandescent lights built in, since that's about as modern of a Philips product as 99% of people probably have at the moment

Phillips has had issues for many years now.  They were originally very high tech.  It’s been many years though. 

[IPD]

5 hours ago, AudiTTFan said:

I'm assuming the modules will have incandescent lights built in, since that's about as modern of a Philips product as 99% of people probably have at the moment

I will raise you Magnavox