[News] Samsung starts mass production of 8GB HBM2 'Aquabolt'

[StyM]

http://hexus.net/tech/news/ram/11422...hbm2-aquabolt/

Samsung has started production of its second generation HBM2, dubbed Aquabolt. The new High Bandwidth Memory is the industry's first to deliver 2.4 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) data transfer speed per pin, and is aimed at the supercomputing and the graphics card market.

The production milestone was heralded by Jaesoo Han, executive vice president, Memory Sales & Marketing at Samsung Electronics, who said that the new memory chips would strengthen Samsung's memory industry leadership competitiveness.

An 8GB HBM2 Aquabolt package can support 307 gigabytes-per-second (GBps) data bandwidth, achieving 9.6 times faster data transmission than an 8 gigabit (Gb) GDDR5 chip, says Samsung.

In comparison with the first generation HBM2 chip from Samsung, Aquabolt can deliver a 50 per cent improvement, with both operating at 1.2V. Samsung highlights that using four of the HBM2 Aquabolt packages in a system will enable 1.2 terabytes-per-second (TBps) bandwidth.

[zanzabar]

This should be really good news if the price stays around $75-90 a stack, but seeing how nand is going I am willing to bet this is a useless product as no one needs 8gb slices or 8GB stacks, and no one wants to deal with that heat. Maybe they can be used in half stacks, that would be really useful.