Targeting on Premium Market
Samsung Electronics has decided to rapidly increase the production volume of its 8-gigabyte (GB) High Bandwidth Memory-2 (HBM2) to target the premium markets such as high-performance computing (HPC), network systems and advanced graphics.
According to Samsung Electronics on July 18, the company has started mass production of 8GB HBM2 DRAM in June last year, developing the high-performance artificial intelligence (AI) memory market. It has also expanded the use of its premium DRAM to high-end graphic card market. Samsung Electronics will increase its production of the 8GB HBM2 by more than 50 percent of its HBM2 production in the first half of next year to meet growing premium DRAM market needs of global IT customers.
The 8GB HBM2 DRAM can receive and send 256GB of data per second which is 8 times faster than current graphic DRAM (8Gb, GDDR5, 8Gbps) that can send 32GB of data per second.
This speed corresponds to a speed that can send 13 20GB movies with 4K resolution in just one second.
“By increasing supply of the 8GB HBM2 DRAM, which is only mass produced by Samsung Electronics, we are able to help our customers to release their next-generation systems on time.” said Vice-President Han Jae-soo of Samsung Electronics Memory Business Department Strategy Marketing Team. “We are going to strengthen business partnership with variety of global customers by releasing lineup of next-generation HBM2 DRAMs in the future.”