We found that GDDR5X chip with data transmission speed of 10 Gbit / s Micron company is ready to provide customer demand, and faster chips in this series so far exist only in the status of engineering samples.
The development of the world's first chip in GDDR5X Micron Research Center in Munich took hundreds of man-hours with the assistance of NVIDIA specialists. The GeForce GTX 1080 - the first using a new memory GDDR5X. However, it is unlikely to be the last, because at the end of a blog post by representatives of Micron promises "a very eventful summer in the graphics segment" ...
Micron confirms that GDDR5X chips are now commercially available now. At least, NVIDIA receives them. To some extent, this removes concerns about possible shortages of both GDDR5X chips and Markets of GeForce GTX 1080 graphics cards.