JEDEC makes GDDR5X official
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Bandwidth ahoy! Hot on the heels of the news that Samsung is producing HBM2 chips, the JEDEC standards body has now published the specification for GDDR5X graphics memory, affectionately known as JESD232.
As the name implies, the new standard is based on the existing GDDR5 spec, but doubles the range of available bandwidth to 10-14 ...