Samsung has announced that it has started the mass production of industry's first 8 Gigabit (Gb) GDDR5 DRAM based on 20nm manufacturing process.


Designed to be used in PC graphics cards and supercomputing application as well as on-board graphics memory for game consoles and notebooks PCs, discrete graphics DRAM offers higher bandwidth which is required to process high quality graphics data streams.

"We expect that our 8Gb GDDR5 will provide original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with the best graphics memory solution available for game consoles as well as general use notebook PCs," said Joo Sun Choi, Executive Vice president of Memory Sales and Marketing at Samsung Electronics. "By expanding our production of 20nm-based DRAM products including the new GDDR5, we will meet increasing global customer demand and take the lead in accelerating the growth of the premium memory market."

Samsung notes that its new 8Gb GDDR5 DRAM offers outstanding bandwidth and by combining only eight new 8Gb will achieve the same density as the 8GB in latest game consoles. the new Samsung 8Gb GDDR5 DRAM offers input/output (I/O) data rate of 8 Gigabits per second (Gbps) per pin which more that four times faster compared to DDR3 DRAM, while each chip can also process data at 32-bit I/O rate. According to Samsung, 2GB of memory can be created with just two new chips which can process up to 64GB of graphical images per second.

Thanks to new 20nm 8Gb GDDR5 DRAM, Samsung has completed its lineup of 8Gb DRAM solutions based on 20nm manufacturing process which now covers server, PC, mobile and graphics memory markets. That same lineup will be expanded with variety of densities including 4Gb, 6Gb, 8Gb and higher.



Source: SamsungTomorrow.com.