[News] SK hynix to Kick off Mass Production for GDDR7 in Q4 2024

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SK hynix, as the market leader in HBM, targets to begin mass production of its GDDR7 chips in the fourth quarter of 2024, the company said on 13th June.

In the meantime, Micron also announced the launch of its GDDR7 graphics memory at Computex, which is currently being sampled. According to AnandTech, Micron not only plans to start mass production for GDDR7 this year, but also aims to do so early enough for some customers to ship finished products by year-end, with major applications range from AI and gaming to high-performance computing.

Samsung, on the other hand, is the first among the Big Three to present its GDDR7 products. According to its press release, Samsung has completed development of the industry’s first GDDR7 DRAM in July, 2023, a 16-gigabit  product, after its development of the industry’s first 24Gbps GDDR6 DRAM in 2022. According to AnandTech, Samsung is already sampling GDDR7 memory with the aim of launching it in 2024.

According to a report from AnandTech, SK hynix already has sample chips available for partners to test. Currently, the company plans to produce both 16Gbit and 24Gbit chips, with data transfer rates of up to 40 GT/s. As Samsung and Micron both expect to begin with 16Gbit chips running at 32 GT/s for their GDDR7 products, whether SK hynix could win customers’ favor by its faster speed attracts attention, AnandTech noted.

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