Original URL: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/12/03/sams_gddr5/
Samsung will next year put GDDR 5 into mass production, it said today after announcing 6Gb/s 512Mb chips based on the graphics memory spec.
Samsung's GDDR 5: due next year
It's not the first. Qimonda began sampling a 512Mb GDDR 5 chip early last month and was quickly followed by Hynix, which upped the ante with a 1Gb part.
Hynix's chip has a per-pin bandwidth of 5Gb/s - enough for an aggregate 20GB/s throughput. Samsung's faster chip can deliver up to 24GB/s.
Like Samsung, both Hynix and Qimonda are expected to deliver GDDR 5 in volume next year. Samsung said its chips will be fabbed at 60nm.
Qimonda puts 4.5GHz graphics memory into mass-production (12 May 2008)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/12/qimonda_fast_gddr5/
Hynix touts 'world's first' 1Gb GDDR 5 chip (15 November 2007)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11/15/hynix_touts_gddr_5/
Qimonda samples GDDR 5 (1 November 2007)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11/01/qimonda_samples_gddr5/