Just a couple of hours will begin broadcasting of AMD event , dedicated to the opening of new graphics solutions, and the most important for us among them will be Radeon R9 Fury X - the first serial card using the memory type HBM.
The official press release announced that SK Hynix manufactures memory type HBM1 technology 20-nanometer class - this means that for the deuce can be followed by any other figure of 8 to 0. The Korean manufacturer confirms that the stack arrangement aims at integrating in one block of four memory chips and a crystal base that are mounted on the silicon bridge. At the same it will be located, and the graphics processor Fiji, but that SK Hynix is not covered. But Korean AMD partners willing to say that the graphics card Radeon R9 Fury X 4 GB of memory type HBM1 will be presented today. It will provide capacity of 1024-bit bus to 512 GB / s, and the memory subsystem power consumption will decrease by 85%. By the way, produced by SK Hynix chips HBM1 operate at a voltage of 1.2 V.
In addition to graphics processors, memory HBM can be used with CPUs, programmable array and various integrated circuits. SK Hynix claims that gigabyte memory chip type HBM1 available in mass quantities now. By the way,