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Hynix Debuts Industry-Leading Graphics Chip

Posted on: Friday, 16 November 2007, 12:00 CST

South Korean semiconductor manufacturer Hynix has developed what it claims to be the industry's first one gigabit GDDR5 graphics memory chip. The chip has a data bandwidth of five gigabit per second, enabling it to process high speed graphics for PCs and game consoles. This graphics memory features a 66nanometer process technology.

Hynix says the chip is suited for processing high definition video and photo-realistic graphics content. It also features time delay adjustments, error correction and jitter control technology as well as power saving features.

The company claims that the GDDR5 improves data processing speed by more than two times that of GDDR3, the current mainstream graphics DRAM device. Hynix plans to start mass production of GDDR5 in the first half of 2008 and expects it to dominate the graphics DRAM market from the second half onwards.

Meanwhile, Hynix's competitor Qimonda began shipping GDDR5 memory devices in sample volumes earlier this month. According to the company, the initial shipments consisted of 512Mb (16Mb x 32) chips with 1Gb (32Mb x 32) and 2Gb versions (64Mb x 32) expected to follow in 2008. It claims that GDDR5 will produce about three times the performance of GDDR3. Its first GDDR5-equipped product is expected to debut in the second half of 2008.

The Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC) is expected to accept GDDR5 as an international standard for memory implementations. According to market intelligence firm iSupply, Samsung is the global leader in the memory implementation market followed by Hynix and Qimonda at second and third position, respectively.

Source: ComputerWire daily updates

Source: Datamonitor

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