SK hynix will start GDDR7 mass production in the first quarter of 2025

South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix will begin mass production of GDDR7 memory in the first quarter of next year. The company confirms this to AnandTech. Memory makers Micron and Samsung will start doing this this year.

SK hynix demonstrated its first GDDR7 chips at Computex in Taiwan. Company confirms to AnandTech that the company will begin mass production of its first GDDR7 memory modules early next year. It appears to be the last major memory company to start doing this. Samsung has already started sampling its GDDR7 memory and plans to release it in 2024. Micron claims that its GDDR7 chips can still be used in video cards this year.

SK hynix plans to eventually release 16 and 24 Gbit GDDR7 modules. This amounts to 2GB and 3GB of memory per chip respectively. The company also promises bandwidths of up to 40Gbit/s per pin, although it is not known whether those speeds will be achieved upon release. The first batch of GDDR7 memory from Micron and Samsung is expected to reach a maximum of 32Gbit/s.

GDDR7 memory is expected to be used for the next generation of Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 GPUs. The first of these should appear on the market in early 2025. That memory type must provide higher bandwidths than the existing GDDR6 memory.