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Samsung Begins GDDR4 Production
Techtree News Staff, Jul 06, 2006 1653 hrs ISTSamsung Electronics has reportedly begun mass production of GDDR4 that the company claims to be the world's fastest graphics memory.
Samsung Electronics has reportedly begun mass production of GDDR4 (series four of graphics double-density-rate memory), which the company claims to be the world's fastest graphics memory.
Samsung says that GDDR4 processes images 33 percent faster than the fastest memory on the market today. Graphics memory is installed on desktop PCs, notebooks, and work-stations to move huge volumes of video images simultaneously.
According to Samsung, GDDR4 offers dramatically increased performance while greatly reducing power consumption. Company sources say that when GDDR4 was measured against GDDR3 at the highest comparable speed (2.0Gb/s), the former registered 45 percent power saving. Samsung says the 512Mb GDDR4 memory will be offered in a 32-bit data bus configuration.
The GDDR4 uses JEDEC (Joint Electron Device Engineering Council) approved standards for signal noise reduction, including data bus inversion and multi-preamble specifications, to help attain the highest possible speed.
Mueez Deen, marketing director - graphics memory and mobile DRAM, Samsung Semiconductor, said, "With GDDR4-based systems, we are entering a new frontier with life-like movements and richly-textured imagery far better than the DVD movies being viewed today. Using 80-nanometer production technology, the memory has an ultra-high speed data processing rate of 2.4Gigabits per second (Gbps)."
Tony Tamasi, vice president - technical marketing, Nvidia, said, "Nvidia worked with JEDEC to develop the GDDR4 standard, and we are excited to see Samsung ramping this into production. The graphics industry has an insatiable demand for high band-width memories, and GDDR4 is poised to become the next major evolutionary step for our GPUs."
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Samsung says that GDDR4 processes images 33 percent faster than the fastest memory on the market today. Graphics memory is installed on desktop PCs, notebooks, and work-stations to move huge volumes of video images simultaneously.
According to Samsung, GDDR4 offers dramatically increased performance while greatly reducing power consumption. Company sources say that when GDDR4 was measured against GDDR3 at the highest comparable speed (2.0Gb/s), the former registered 45 percent power saving. Samsung says the 512Mb GDDR4 memory will be offered in a 32-bit data bus configuration.
The GDDR4 uses JEDEC (Joint Electron Device Engineering Council) approved standards for signal noise reduction, including data bus inversion and multi-preamble specifications, to help attain the highest possible speed.
Mueez Deen, marketing director - graphics memory and mobile DRAM, Samsung Semiconductor, said, "With GDDR4-based systems, we are entering a new frontier with life-like movements and richly-textured imagery far better than the DVD movies being viewed today. Using 80-nanometer production technology, the memory has an ultra-high speed data processing rate of 2.4Gigabits per second (Gbps)."
Tony Tamasi, vice president - technical marketing, Nvidia, said, "Nvidia worked with JEDEC to develop the GDDR4 standard, and we are excited to see Samsung ramping this into production. The graphics industry has an insatiable demand for high band-width memories, and GDDR4 is poised to become the next major evolutionary step for our GPUs."
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