Samsung expects gddr6 memory with a speed of 14 to 16 Gbit/s from 2018

Samsung has given details about the arrival of gddr6 memory during Hot Chips. The manufacturer expects to bring the successor to gddr5 on the market from 2018. The speed will initially be 14Gbit/s and later increase to 16Gbit/s.

According to the slides that Samsung has shown and published by ComputerBase, it may take until 2020 for the gddr6 memory to reach maximum speed. Gddr6 will be the successor to gddr5, the memory currently used on most video cards. Unlike Micron, Samsung does not make gddr5x memory, but concentrates on gddr6.

Micron’s gddr5x memory, which is currently only used by Nvidia, has a speed of 10Gbit/s. At the beginning of this year, the Jedec set the speeds for gddr5x at 10 to 14 Gbit/s. Micron wants to increase the speed of its memory and previously spoke of a maximum potential of 16Gbit/s, but it is not yet known when the faster memory will go into production and end up in products.

The gddr6 memory is not only faster than gddr5 and gddr5x, but also more efficient. At the same time, Samsung is working on DDR5 and lpddr5 memory, which should also be ready in 2018. Before that, there will be an intermediate step in the form of lp4x, a variant of lpddr4, which, according to Samsung, is 18 percent more efficient than the current memory for mobile devices.

According to ComputerBase, Micron also reports that ddr5 is being worked on. The memory manufacturer mentions 2018 as the date for the first samples and expects the memory to go into production in 2019. A major switch to DDR5 may not follow until 2020.