Tuesday, March 8th 2016
SK Hynix to Ship 4GB HBM2 Stacks by Q3-2016
Korean DRAM and NAND flash giant SK Hynix will be ready to ship its 4 GB stacked second generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM2) chips from Q3, 2016. These packages will be made up of four 1 GB dies, with a bandwidth-per-pin of 1 Gbps, 1.6 Gbps, and 2 Gbps, working out to per-stack bandwidths of 128 GB/s, 204 GB/s, and 256 GB/s, respectively.
These chips will target applications such as graphics cards, network infrastructure, HPC, and servers. The company is also designing 8 GB stacks, made up of eight 1 GB dies. These stacks will be targeted at HPC and server applications. The company is also offering cost-effective 2 GB, 2-die stacks, for graphics cards. The cost-effective 2 GB, 2-die stacks could prove particularly important for the standard's competition against GDDR5X, particularly in mid-range and performance-segment graphics cards.
Source:
Golem.de
These chips will target applications such as graphics cards, network infrastructure, HPC, and servers. The company is also designing 8 GB stacks, made up of eight 1 GB dies. These stacks will be targeted at HPC and server applications. The company is also offering cost-effective 2 GB, 2-die stacks, for graphics cards. The cost-effective 2 GB, 2-die stacks could prove particularly important for the standard's competition against GDDR5X, particularly in mid-range and performance-segment graphics cards.
19 Comments on SK Hynix to Ship 4GB HBM2 Stacks by Q3-2016
www.techpowerup.com/219348/samsung-begins-mass-producing-4-gigabyte-hbm2-memory-stacks.html
These cards are meant to be sub-4k beasts and that's exactly what they do. Buuuut now I'm basically stuck with a 1080p/1440p beast setup for 2 years (got Titan X on release) due to some bad decisions, and it makes no sense to get another 1440p monitor for such a short period of time.
Advise me if I'm wrong, since I plan to buy one of those 21:9 curved beauties sometimes this year....