Samsung begins production of 50nm GDDR5 memory
By Donald Melanson 
posted February 13th 2009 8:13PM
posted February 13th 2009 8:13PM
It's still a little ways away from actually landing in some graphics cards, but Samsung has announced that it has begun mass production of its new 50nm GDDR5 memory, which promises to support a maximum data transfer speed of 7.0 gigabits per second and boast a maximum bandwidth of 28 gigabytes per second. What's more, according to Samsung, the shift to a 50nm manufacturing process also increases production efficiency by a full 100 percent, and allows the memory to operate at 1.35 volts, which is a 20 percent reduction compared to current GDDR4 memory. From the looks of it, however, manufacturers will have to make do with a 32Megabit x 32 configuration (also configurable as a 64Mb x 16 device) initially, although Samsung says it plans to expand the 50nm process throughout its graphics memory line-up by the end of the year.
[Thanks, Shattered Ice]
[Thanks, Shattered Ice]
Is that a bloody knife?!?
Watch your language. And yes, it's a knife.
server blade
blade memory.
Everyone is thinking the same thing: is this what Samsung employees see right before they're fired in Eastern Asia fabs?
Or is this sickle-guillotine grotesque imagery being used to illustrate the collective failure of the entire DRAM market?
Speaking of which, we need to bring the guillotine back as a viable option for death row people. It's by far the most quick death one could achieve, what with the lethal injections causing unbelievable pain as it turns out, and the electric chair being too barbaric.
Thoughts?
I was thinking "bleeding edge."
It does seem creepy to put a bleeding edge on a commercial though.
What's on the top right?
A knife covered in grape juice.
I was making a PB&J...
What's the deal with the Jason stuff? How much are they *JASON REMAKE* paying for that, it's a vaguely interesting ad campaign though having ads literally pasted into the *GO SEE JASON* content is *JAAAASOON* annoying.
The movie is a coincidence. This is an Engadget tradition.
It's Friday the 13th, sheesh.
Not to mention that today is Friday the 13th. I'm loving trying to find the hidden Jason stuff.
Engadget has done this a few friday the 13th's in the past if not every (someone can remind me when they started) so its doesnt have anything to do with the movie coming out. Its fun and funny.
Engadget doesnt need add revenue from the makers of friday the 13th, they get enough from apple already.
Save some of the bloodiness for March. We got Friday the 13th two months in a row this year.
Whoa thats crazy, 2 Friday the 13th's this year! Back to back!
I wish that XDR ram would become mainstream enough, as it is also high-performance...
Hooray patents!
Hooray Tool!
Delicious Ball Grid Array.
Stop admiring my balls.
You keep your balls in a grid array? Doesn't that hurt?
Subtlety fail.
Knife provided for scale
But how big is the knife?
1cm wide
it would have been better if all those little dots were hockey mask.
Oh! geez! I can't imagine what the Engagdget Crew if going to do with the images on Valentine's Day!!!!
The bloody knife probably signifies "bleeding edge" technology. Lame puns are lame.
the bloody knife probably signifies friday the 13th
^This.
bleeding edge....until ten seconds from now.
So where's my molecular processor?