Update 06/13: SK hynix has despatched a word to AnandTech clarifying that the corporate “plans to start mass production of GDDR7 in the fourth quarter of this year when the relevant market opens up.” This article has been up to date accordingly.
Being a serious JEDEC reminiscence normal, GDDR7 is slated to be produced by all three of the Big Three reminiscence producers. But plainly not all three distributors will likely be kicking off mass manufacturing on the similar time.
SK hynix was at this 12 months’s Computex commerce present, displaying off their full lineup of reminiscence applied sciences – together with, after all, GDDR7. SK hynix is the final of the most important reminiscence vendor’s we have seen selling their reminiscence, and fittingly, they appear to be the final when it comes to their mass manufacturing schedule. According to firm representatives, the agency will kick off mass manufacturing of their GDDR7 chips within the final quarter of 2024.
Comparatively, the corporate’s cross-town rival, Samsung, is already sampling reminiscence with the objective of getting it out the door in 2024. And Micron has been moderately gung ho about not solely beginning mass manufacturing this 12 months, however beginning it early sufficient that not less than a few of their clients will have the ability to ship completed merchandise this 12 months.
That stated, it bears mentioning that with industry-standard reminiscence applied sciences, mass manufacturing at one vendor doesn’t point out that one other is late; it’s simply indicating that somebody was first to validate with a accomplice and that accomplice plans to ship its product in 2024. And whereas mass manufacturing stays one other 4+ months out, SK hynix does have pattern chips for its companions to check proper now, and the chips have been demonstrated at Computex.
As far as SK hynix’s flooring sales space at Computex 2024 is anxious, the corporate had GDDR7 chips on show together with a desk basically summarizing the corporate’s roadmap. For now, SK hynix is planning on each 16Gbit and 24Gbit chips, with information switch charges of as much as 40 GT/s. Though when SK hynix intends to launch their higher-end configurations stays to be seen. Both of the corporate’s rivals are beginning out with 16Gbit chips working at 32 GT/sec, so being the primary to get a sooner/bigger chip out can be a feather in SK hynix’s cap.
