Samsung fires up its foundries for mass production of GDDR6 memory
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As cool and exciting as HBM might be, virtually all discrete graphics cards are still using GDDR5 or GDDR5X memory. That's not especially likely to change, either, given the relative complexity and cost of the ultra-wide and super-dense HBM. Most of the next generation of graphics cards is likely to continue using more traditional DRAM packages. Samsung just announced that it's begun mass production of 16-gigabit GDDR6 chips for that task.
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