Last week, South Korean company Samsung said that it will increases the production of 8 GB HBM2 memory chips to "meet growing market needs." It was also reported that Samsung is the only supplier of such HBM2 chips in the world.
People immediately wondered if this statement by Samsung is connected with the preparations for the beginning of mass production of graphics solutions AMD with Vega architecture using memory HBM2 type. It took us some time to find a reliable answer, but now we can confidently state that Samsung will supply AMD Vega graphics processors with HBM2 memory. Moreover, there are no other providers yet, although the same SK Hynix also offers memory HBM2 type.
At one time, the development of HBM memory of the first generation AMD and SK Hynix was carried out jointly, the result of which were the Radeon R9 Fury X, Radeon R9 Fury and Radeon R9 Nano graphics cards based on the AMD Fiji graphics processor. Nevertheless, when creating graphics solutions Vega, AMD preferred Samsung's products. Memory of the HBM2 type is also installed on the NVIDIA Tesla V100 computation accelerators with the Volta architecture, so AMD can not be considered its only consumer.
However, it is the output of the relatively mass video card Radeon RX Vega that prompted Samsung to increase the production of the necessary assortment of HBM2 chips. Related Products :
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