Monday, June 29th 2015
Micron Begins Shipping its First 20 nm-class GDDR5 DRAM Chips
Micron Technology announced during its Q3 FY-2015 earnings call, that it began shipping GDDR5 memory chips based on its 20 nm-class node. The company is reportedly shipping 8 Gb (1 gigabyte) GDDR5 memory chips. The company was last reported to be acquiring Japanese DRAM major Elpida, which also supplies GDDR5 chips to graphics cards, notebooks, and game console makers. The GDDR5 memory space has been saturated by companies such as Samsung and SK Hynix. The memory standard itself is on the brink of becoming obsolete; with AMD implementing HBM on its new high-end GPU, and NVIDIA expected to implement HBM with its upcoming "Pascal" GPU family. There is still quite a few GDDR5-equipped graphics cards to be sold, before HBM takes over GPUs of all market segments.
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Kitguru
11 Comments on Micron Begins Shipping its First 20 nm-class GDDR5 DRAM Chips
Besides, I don't think manufacturing process has anything to do with GPU compatibility. It's GDDR5 and that's all it matters to the memory controller on the GPU. GDDR5 itself can be 28nm, 20nm or even 14nm, I don't think GPU should care about that for as long as the interface is the same. Shrinkage just decreases power consumption, heat and cost.
the future I would assume is HBH so I don't really see the point of this? who is going to buy it? if NV isn't putting 8GB chips on board and AMD is using HBH now then what is the future purpose of this? HBH will be on Pascal or at least supposed to and I wouldn't see it not having it.
Not going to happen.
Not going to happen.
Not going to happen.