Samsung has announced the mass production of 16 Gb GDDR6 SDRAM chips with a higher-than-expected pin speed. The chips could see use in upcoming graphics cards that are not equipped with High Bandwidth Memory:
Samsung has beaten SK Hynix and Micron to be the first to mass produce GDDR6 memory chips. Samsung's 16Gb (2GB) chips are fabricated on a 10nm process and run at 1.35V. The new chips have a whopping 18Gb/s pin speed and will be able to reach a transfer rate of 72GB/s. Samsung's current 8Gb (1GB) GDDR5 memory chips, besides having half the density, work at 1.55V with up to 9Gb/s pin speeds. In a pre-CES 2018 press release, Samsung briefly mentioned the impending release of these chips. However, the speed on release is significantly faster than the earlier stated 16Gb/s pin speed and 64GB/s transfer rate.
18 Gbps exceeds what the JEDEC standard calls for.
Also at Engadget and Wccftech.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @05:33AM
For once, "here" (crappy country, but not totally crappy) we have stock of something USA lacks, instead of getting the left overs. Incredible. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/cryptocurrency-boom-creates-insane-global-graphics-card-shortage/?comments=1&start=40 [arstechnica.com]
Who wants RX580 cards for 400 euros plus shipping? Shops also have 570s and lower. Forgot to check what NVidias exactly (prefer Linux open source support, and no dick EULAs about what can or cannot be done with a card), tho 10xx rings a bell.