Samsung Builds World's Fastest Graphics Memory Chip

[Xerapis]

Samsung Electronics has developed the fastest graphics memory chip in the world. Samsung announced Monday that it has built a new 512Mb GDDR4 (Graphics Double Data Rate version4) memory chip that is 65 percent faster in transferring data than the next fastest chip.
The new chips work at 4Gb/s (gigabits per second) while currently available GDDR4 chips operate at 2.4Gb/s. Samsung used 80-nanometer production technology to make the new chips. Sample chips have been delivered to Samsung's major customers such as Nvidia, and mass production will reportedly begin during the second half of this year.

“Our new GDDR4 memory will add even more zip in video applications, making gaming, computer-aided design and video editing faster than ever before,” said Mueez Deen, marketing director for graphics memory at Samsung Semiconductor.

Samsung expects the new chip will create a new market for high-speed graphic chips for game units and graphic cards that deal with huge volumes of images.

Samsung leads the graphics memory industry, having first developing GDDR in 2000, GDDR2 in 2002, GDDR3 in 2003, and 256Mb GDDR4 in October of 2005 and mass producing GDDR4 2.4Gb/s in the middle of last year.

(englishnews@chosun.com )

[Murgos]

Not sure how big of a news item this is.  GDDR4 has been around for a year+ already, this is just an announcement of an improvement in speed (and GDD4 was actually designed by ATI).

GDDR4 is not DDR4 RAM, don't get confused.  They have a common ancestor but you wouldn't want to use GDDR RAM as system ram, it has far to much latency.  DDR3 SDRAM isn't even available yet.

[Raging Turtle]

I'm sure Xerapis knows that any time Samsung does something, it instantly becomes the best in the world according to the Korean media 

Maybe it does kick ass, but Korean-English news needs to be taken with a grain of salt. 

[Xerapis]

Well, of course it does.

Hence posting it in general DISCUSSION.

For snarky comments and the random possibility of someone pointing out odd discrepancies or weirdness.