Samsung puts the turbo to hbm2 memory manufacturing thinking of nvidia

Samsung is the undisputed world leader in the manufacture of memory chips, the Korean giant has announced that it is increasing its capacity to manufacture HBM2 memory modules, thereby intending to meet demand in the field of advanced graphics, computing high-performance, artificial intelligence and servers.

Samsung tops production of HBM2 for Nvidia

Currently Samsung is able to offer the highest quality in HBM2 memory, its modules are the best in terms of performance, reliability and energy efficiency, it is capable of offering a bandwidth of 256 GB / s per module, which is a very high figure and allows to reach 512 GB / s just by using two modules of this advanced memory.

The Samsung HBM2 memory is manufactured in stacks with a capacity of 8 GB, each of them contains no less than eight dies linked by TSV (Through Silicon Via) technology that involves more than 40, 000 interconnections in a single package with a capacity of 8 GB. The use of this memory technology provides great advantages in environments where memory is used very intensively.

This move by Samsung would undoubtedly be due to a great demand on the way by Nvidia, the graphics giant has not yet launched any product intended for the domestic sector in this memory technology, but it is using it with its most advanced cards. from the Tesla series.

The premiere of AMD with the HBM2 memory has taken place with the Radeon Vega Frontier professional card, it is expected that the next step will be the gaming-oriented Radeon RX Vega that will be announced in August.

Source: overclock3d