The next Geforce doesn’t use HBM 2
Published in Graphics
Tuesday, 13 June 2017 10:46

The next Geforce doesn’t use HBM 2


Too early for this memory

Volta is out for artificial intelligence, machine learning applications and it will be shipping in DGX 1 systems, mainly for deep learning and AI. The next Geforce will be a  completely separate chip. 

SK Hynix announces 8Gbit GDDR6 DRAM
Published in Cloud
Monday, 24 April 2017 15:04

SK Hynix announces 8Gbit GDDR6 DRAM


Coming in early 2018

SK Hynix has announced its GDDR6 DRAM chips, advertising them as "the world's fastest" 2x nm 8Gb GDDR6 DRAM on the market.

Micron offers 2X GDDR5 Speed in 2016
Published in Graphics
Friday, 11 December 2015 12:37

Micron offers 2X GDDR5 Speed in 2016


Updatad: The next generation

Micron has promised to launch a new kind of memory that is twice the speed of mainstreams GDDR5 . This will be released during 2016 and will be company's answer to HBM.

GDDR5, GDDR6 rule 2016 GPUs
Published in Graphics
Thursday, 10 December 2015 12:28

GDDR5, GDDR6 rule 2016 GPUs


Exclusive: Highest end are HBM 2.0, GDDR6, GDDR5X

AMD over-hyped the new  High Bandwidth Memory standard and now the second generation HBM 2.0 is coming in 2016. However it looks like most of GPUs shipped in this year will still rely on the older GDDR5.