Qimonda unveils GDDR5 memory chips

Posted on Wednesday, May 21 2008 @ 21:38 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Qimonda today unveiled it has started mass production and volume shipping of its GDDR5 512Mbit memory chips with a speed of 4Gbps. These memory chips will be used by AMD in the Radeon HD 4000 series graphics cards.
GDDR5 will become the next predominant graphics DRAM standard with a tremendous memory bandwidth improvement and a multitude of advanced power saving features. It targets a variety of applications, starting with high performance desktop graphic cards followed by notebook graphics. Later on also the introduction in game consoles and other graphics intensive applications is planned.

“We are very proud to supply AMD with GDDR5 volume shipments only six months after first product samples have been delivered,” said Robert Feurle, Vice President Business Unit Specialty DRAM of Qimonda AG. “This is a further milestone in our successful GDDR5 roadmap and underlines our predominant position as innovator and leader in the graphics DRAM market.”


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