Micron is the leading provider of gddr6 memory for geforce rtx

Although Micron is probably not the only provider of GDDR6 memory chips for Nvidia's new RTX graphics cards, it will be the main provider of this type of memory.

Micron to be Nvidia's leading provider of GDDR6 memory

GDDR6 memory was born to improve speeds and double the bandwidth that GDDR5 memory supplied, in addition to requiring less energy to operate. All the advantages that Nvidia has taken advantage of for its new generation of Turing graphics cards. At this point, we do not know if AMD will follow in the footsteps of implementing this memory in its new generation of graphics cards or if they bet on HBM2 memory, as they did with the VEGA series.

Nvidia appears to have been cautious with the implementation of HBM2 memory. Block HBM's higher costs and reduced availability of higher margin products that can take advantage of that additional bandwidth, and let GDDR work its way through consumer products, a strategy that has likely contributed to maintaining BOM costs for your graphics cards at a relatively low level.

Currently, Micron has been the only company to have collaborated with Nvidia in launching the RTX 20 series, all of which incorporate the new high-performance memory subsystem. Micron had already announced GDDR6 memory as a product in 2017, with samples in early 2018 and ready for mass production in June, long enough to take a good inventory of the shiny new graphics cards that will be out in September. Of course, this initial Micron leadership does not mean that they are the only Nvidia vendors, but there is no doubt that they will be the most relevant for at least a long time.

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