Micron Technologies, within the newest earnings report, introduced that they may begin transport High-Bandwidth Memory 2 (HBM2) DRAM. Used for high-performance graphics playing cards, server processors and every kind of processors, HBM2 reminiscence is needed and comparatively costly answer, nevertheless, when Micron enters the market of its manufacturing, costs, and the market ought to regulate for the brand new participant. Previously, solely SK-Hynix and Samsung have been manufacturing the HBM2 DRAM, nevertheless, Micron will be a part of them and they’ll once more type a “big-three” pact that dominates the reminiscence market.
Up till now, Micron used to put all hopes on its proprietary Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) DRAM sort, which did not acquire a lot traction from prospects and it by no means actually took off. Only just a few uncommon merchandise used it, as Fujitsu SPARC64 XIfx CPU utilized in Fujitsu PRIMEHPC FX100 supercomputer launched in 2015. Micron introduced to droop works on HMC in 2018 and determined to dedicate their efforts to GDDR6 and HBM improvement. So, because of this, we’re seeing that they may launch HBM2 DRAM merchandise someday this 12 months.
