SK hynix Inc. has started shipping the samples of 24 Gigabit (Gb) DDR5 DRAM with the industry’s largest density for a single DRAM chip.
DDR is a comprehensive standard specification defined by JEDEC (Joint Electron Device Engineering Council). It currently includes 5 generations of DDR.
Just 14 months after becoming the first in the industry to release DDR5 DRAM in October 2020, SK hynix releases industry’s largest density DDR5 chip, thus solidifying the chipmaker’s technological leadership in DDR5.
Produced using the cutting-edge 1anm technology that utilizes EUV process, the new DDR5 has a density of 24Gb per chip, which is up from the existing density of 16Gb in 1ynm DDR5 with improved production efficiency and increased speed by up to 33%.
SK hynix also managed to reduce product power consumption by 25% compared to existing products while lowering energy use in manufacturing through enhanced production efficiency. The company expects the product to bring about reduction in carbon emissions as well, which is meaningful in the context of ESG management.
The initial offerings on this product are set to be 48 Gigabyte (GB) and 96GB modules for supply to cloud data centers. It is also expected to power high-performance servers for big data processing such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, as well as realizing Metaverse applications among others.
Kevin (Jongwon) Noh, President and Chief Marketing Officer at SK hynix, said, “In line with the release of 24Gb DDR5, SK hynix is closely engaging with a number of customers that provides cloud services. We will continue to strengthen our leadership in growing DDR5 market by introducing advanced technologies and developing products with ESG-awareness.”
“Intel and SK Hynix have a long history of strong collaboration,” said Carolyn Duran, Vice President of Memory and IO Technologies in Intel’s Data Center and AI Group. “Today’s announcement is another illustration of our two companies working together to deliver a 24Gb solution to address needs of our mutual customers. The 24Gb DDR5 offering provides high mono die capacity and will help customers boost performance of memory capacity bound workloads such as data analytics while bringing significant TCO benefits.”
