Samsung Ships Industry-First HBM4E Memory Next-Gen AI Chips
Shares of Samsung are surging after the South Korean chip maker revealed it has begun shipping samples of its 12-layer HBM4E to major customers around the globe, giving it temporary bragging rights over rivals Micron and SK hynix. The cutting edge memory chips will help fuel the next round of AI hardware with Samsung touting stable speeds of up to 14 gigabits per second (Gbps).
There's also headroom to push the pedal to the metal, with Samsung claiming performance is scalable to a blistering 16Gbps. At the top end, Samsung's HBM4E chips represent a better than 20% increase over HBM4, found in solutions like AMD's Instinct MI455X accelerator, with memory bandwidth calculated at up to 3.6 terabytes per second (TB/s) per stack.
"Following the successful mass production of HBM4, Samsung has once again demonstrated its distinct technological edge with HBM4E," said Sang Joon Hwang, Executive Vice President and Head...
Copyright of this story solely belongs to hothardware.com. To see the full text click HERE
