April 20, 2007 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Advanced semiconductor solution provider Micron Technology (micron.com) announced on Wednesday it has launched its new Aspen Memory family of energy-efficient products featuring the industry's first low-voltage DDR2 DRAM in reduced chip count memory modules.

Micron says these new products were specifically designed to lower server power consumption and the company plans on expanding the Aspen Memory product family, which will impact different applications where power is an issue, including data center servers and laptops, says the company.

According to a recent study conducted by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and funded by AMD, enterprise data center servers consumed 123 billion kilowatt-hours worldwide in 2005. By implementing Micron's new Aspen Memory modules, data centers could reduce system memory power consumption by approximately 24 percent, which is a reduction of six billion kilowatt-hours and an annual savings of $300million based on today's energy rates, says the company.

Considering the push within the industry, through organizations like The Green Grid, to reduce power consumption and become more environmentally friendly, this product could help many data center operators achieve goals of becoming more green.

"There is currently a push in the IT server industry to reduce the vast amount of power consumed by data centers. To truly be effective, the issue of power consumption should be examined from all technology levels in a data center server system all the way down to the silicon level," says Brian Shirley, vice president of Micron's memory group. "Our new Aspen Memory modules provide customers with the lowest power memory solution available in the industry, with no loss in performance."

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