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Micron Starts Volume Production of GDDR6 High Performance Memory

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/25/2018 02:47 PM | source: | 6 comment(s)
Micron Starts Volume Production of GDDR6 High Performance Memory

Micron today announced volume production on its 8GB GDDR6 memory. Built on experience and execution for several generations of GDDR memory, GDDR6 - Micron's fastest and most powerful graphics memory designed in Micron's Munich Development Center - is optimized for a variety of application including graphics processing units (GPUs).

Additionally, Micron has worked with core ecosystem partners to ramp GDDR6 documentation and interoperability, enabling faster time to market for designs.

"Micron is a pioneer in developing advanced high bandwidth memory solutions and continues that leadership with GDDR6. Micron demonstrated this leadership by recently achieving throughput up to 20 GB/s on our GDDR6 solutions," said Andreas Schlapka, director, Compute Networking Business Unit, Micron. "In addition to performance increases, Micron has developed a deep partner ecosystem to enable rapid creation of GDDR6 designs, enabling faster time to market for customers looking to leverage this powerful new memory technology."

The need for high performance GDDR6 memory has grown as end-users demand advanced applications. GDDR6 enables advanced performance with lower power consumption in a number of segments including:

  • Artificial Intelligence — Artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning are memory intensive applications that require more bandwidth from memory solutions. GDDR6 delivers the higher bandwidth required to accelerate AI in applications like computer vision, autonomous driving and the many other applications that require this higher bandwidth.
  • Graphics — Enabling significant performance improvements for today's top GPUs, GDDR6 delivers enhanced graphic memory speeds to enable higher application bandwidth. Micron GDDR6 will be a core enabling technology of advanced GPU applications, including acceleration, 4K video and improved rendering, VR/AR and crypto mining applications.
  • Networking — Advanced networking technologies require access to high speed/high bandwidth memory. GDDR6-powered smart Network Interface Cards (NIC) enable significant improvements in network bandwidth. Additionally, high bandwidth RAID controllers featuring GDDR6 memory deliver dramatic enhancements to data access and protection.
  • Automotive — As auto manufacturers push for autonomous vehicles, high performance memory is required to process the vast amounts of real-time data required to make this technology a reality. Micron GDDR6 delivers 448 GB/s auto qualified memory solutions, that deliver more than double the bandwidth of LPDDR5 automotive memory solutions.

"As demand for advanced automotive applications such as ADAS and other autonomous driving solutions grows, the need for high bandwidth memory in automotive will grow as well. Advanced high bandwidth GDDR6 memory solutions are a key enabling technology for autonomous vehicles and will be an important tool for the automotive industry as they develop next generation transportation initiatives," said Kris Baxter, vice president, Marketing, Micron's Embedded Business Unit.

Targeting up to 64GB/s in one package, GDDR6 brings a significant improvement over the fastest available GDDR5. This unprecedented level of single-chip performance, using proven, industry-standard BGA packaging provides designers a powerful, cost-efficient and low-risk solution using the most scalable, high-speed discrete memory available to the market.

In order to deliver this leading edge high bandwidth memory technology to customers, Micron is working directly with ecosystem partners in order to enable learning on both pre-silicon verification as well as validation. Prior to mass production of GDDR6 memory, Micron shipped early validation silicon to our ecosystem partners to accelerate engineering efforts behind validating intellectual property and build robust models and toolsets in the ecosystem and deliver board layout validation. This ensures that engineers are able to implement GDDR6 in designs at a faster rate and bring bandwidth intensive applications to the marketplace. These ecosystem partners include Rambus and more. 

"With nearly 30 years' experience in implementing designs for high-speed interfaces, Rambus is the first IP provider to launch a comprehensive GDDR6 PHY solution for next-generation AI, ADAS, networking and graphics applications and continues to be at the leading edge of implementing industry standards. We are proud to work with Micron and other ecosystem partners to help customers accelerate time to market for GDDR6 designs and deliver the most advanced solutions based on GDDR6 memory," said Frank Ferro, senior director of product marketing, Rambus.







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HardwareCaps
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#5560196 Posted on: 06/25/2018 03:13 PM
Turing where are you? oh wait Nvidia has no pressure and plenty of stock...... Goodbye Turing see ya in fall

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#5560205 Posted on: 06/25/2018 03:43 PM
Well, it would make sense to see Nvidia's next offering with GDDR6 now that it starts to come around. If they release anything, that is.

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#5560209 Posted on: 06/25/2018 03:51 PM
Turing where are you? oh wait Nvidia has no pressure and plenty of stock...... Goodbye Turing see ya in fall


Ya because you know when GDDR6 hits mass production Nvidia instantaneously spawns millions of GPU's in stock and it doesn't take months to create it, aka Fall release..

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#5560215 Posted on: 06/25/2018 04:08 PM
Bandwidth itself is not important as metric. What matters is bandwidth/watt. As every watt not eaten by video memory is watt which can be eaten by GPU.
Then 2nd metric which matters is capacity / space. 3rd is obvious bandwidth / space.

I am quite sure, 3rd most important has been greatly improved over gddr5. 2nd one, I am not so sure about initial capacity per package.
And 1st, this better be good improvement.

But in the end, I am just happy to see they state that production is smooth.

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#5560300 Posted on: 06/25/2018 10:58 PM
what a joke 1/4 faster than xgdr5 ? stupid industrie is just trying to milk us again and again ... ddr2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 noting new just selling the same old bs for ages now. how about a L1 cache solution in speed for the masses as system or gc mem? or at least something as fast? not this old nosense

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