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http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100624PR205.html
Press release; Jessie Shen, DIGITIMES [Thursday 24 June 2010]
Elpida Memory has completed development of a 50nm two-gigabit (2Gb) GDDR5 device using copper interconnects, according to the Japan-based chip vendor. The new GDDR5 was developed at its Munich Design Center in Germany.
Elpida said it plans to begin sample shipments of the new 2Gb GDDR5 in July 2010, and mass production is expected to get underway in the July-September period of 2010.
Elpida's Hiroshima plant plans to handle 2Gb GDDR5 production, according to the company. Production of its 1Gb GDDR3/GDDR5 products has been outsourcing to Taiwan-based Winbond Electronics, the company added.
Applications for GDDR memory devices are graphic processing equipment such as game consoles and PC graphics cards, and in equipment that requires high-performance computing, such as science and technology, physical simulation, digital image processing and video conversion. Using 2Gb GDDR5 in these applications can double the frame buffer size of each GPU compared with 1Gb memory products, Elpida claimed. |
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