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1-Gigabit GDDR5 Finally Completed by Elpida

Leading Japanese global distributor of DRAM Elpida Memory has been working on its first graphics double data rate random access memory module (GDDR DRAM) ever since it acquired GDDR design rights from the German company Qimonda AG in August 2009. Scheduled to enter the mass production stage in the second half of 2010...

20 November 2009
09:36 GMT

Munich DRAM Test Laboratory Formally Opened by Elpida Memory

Munich Design Center has been designing GDDR memory modules for the past few months, since it was first allowed to start operating earlier this year, in May to be exact. After months of continued work, the laboratory can finally be said to have reached full-scale operation, having been officially inaugurated. The Mun...

20 November 2009
08:04 GMT

Samsung Announces Mass Production of 50nm GDDR5 Memory

Samsung Electronics, a world leading manufacturer of high-performance memory products, has just announced that it has begun mass producing GDDR5 graphics memory, featuring 50nm manufacturing technology. With the announcement, Samsung will now be capable of delivering a faster memory solution for all of the upcoming g...

12 February 2009
03:32 GMT

Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 1GB Toxic Edition Spotted

Sapphire Technology, the AMD-loving AIB, is reported to be on its way to unveil a new custom graphics card, the Radeon HD 4870 1GB Toxic. The card is based on ATI's 55nm GPU RV770XT chip, which already attracted attention on its performance capabilities. The fresh 1GB model of the Radeon HD 4870 is said to have ...

23 December 2008
05:44 GMT

More AMD RV740 Details Surface

As announced a few days ago, the first 40nm graphics chip Advanced Micro Devices' graphics division ATI was able to pull out its RV740. From what we've learned, the GPU was believed to be the successor of RV730, yet it seems that this is far from the truth; at least, this is what the latest news says. The n...

20 December 2008
03:34 GMT

AMD Taped Out 40nm RV740 with GDDR5

At a time when NVIDIA is working on its yet unannounced 55nm graphics card, which is supposed to take the performance crown away from ATI's Radeon HD 4870X2 board, AMD's graphics division is maintaining its focus on the 40nm technology process. We reported a few days ago that the company had taped out the f...

18 December 2008
04:53 GMT

HIS Releases Speediest HD 4870 IceQ 4+

HIS announced today the release of its HD 4870 IceQ 4+, which is said to be able to deliver the fastest in-game performance ever provided by a single GPU HIS graphics accelerator. The new HIS card features a Radeon 4870 GPU core that has the frequency leveraged to 770MHz, allowing it to deliver serious high-definitio...

12 December 2008
06:40 GMT

DirectX 11 Compatible GPUs from ATI Expected in 2009

Advanced Micro Devices graphics products group ATI announced at the CEATEC trade-show taking place in Japan that it expects to have DirectX 11-compatible GPUs available in 2009. Some voices on the Web say that this is a clear sign that the Sunnyvale company plans to release a new series of graphics cards, one that wi...

3 October 2008
06:08 GMT

Testing Results for Radeon HD 4870X2 Rev2

AMD has put a lot of work into the newest Radeon HD 4870X2 graphics board in its attempt to make it the next true high-end card. At least, when it comes to the company's graphics product line, this card goes straight to the top. As showed before, Radeon HD 4870X2 pairs RV770 GPUs on the same PCB, and features hi...

28 July 2008
03:12 GMT

Qimonda Confident of GDDR5 Future

As most of you already know by now, AMD is the first graphics card manufacturer to introduce a GDDR5-enabled card. However, the one thing that might have gone by unknown in this is that AMD succeeded this by partnering with memory chip maker Qimonda, which, back in May, announced that it had started shipping GDDR5 me...

10 July 2008
06:36 GMT

NVIDIA GDDR5 Cards to Arrive in 2009

NVIDIA hasn't even officially released its new D10U-based graphics cards lineup, but a few lucky journalists attending this year's Computex show were able to spot one of these cards. To make matters even more interesting, despite the fact that the new D10U cards haven't yet been officially announced, r...

5 June 2008
06:13 GMT

AMD Graphic Cards Receive GDDR5 memory

If you are wondering what AMD is prepping for its new R700 graphic cards, here's a piece of information you might find interesting. Qimonda, the memory manufacturer, has announced that it started shipping GDDR5 memory to AMD. The memory is supposed to be for the company's next generation graphic processors,...

21 May 2008
11:03 GMT

Qimonda Takes GDDR5 to Mass-Production: More Pixels on Your LCD

German memory specialist Qimonda has announced that it was ready to ramp up production of the next generation of memory chips in the GDDR5 family. The advent of the new solution is likely to spark another battle between AMD's graphics division and its arch-rival Nvidia, given the fact that GDDR5 memory will deli...

12 May 2008
06:33 GMT

GDDR5 to Bring Back the Graphics Performance

The single-GPU graphics cards market has been progressing at a small pace during the last years, as the more and more intricate graphics chips are hard to design and manufacture. The advent of the dual-GPU solutions did nothing but take another approach at the existing problem, however they are more expensive and com...

5 April 2008
04:47 GMT

AMD Informs Its Partners About Delayed RV770 Chips

AMD has just issued a memo for its technology partners, detailing upon the current progress with the upcoming graphics chips in the RV770 family. According to the memo, the chip manufacturer will release the RV770-powered graphics cards in late Q2, which means they will be ready before the Computex show starts.The RV...

12 March 2008
07:07 GMT

GDDR5: Gaming Has Entered the 6Gbps Highway

Samsung electronics announced that they have developed industry's fastest double-data-rate memory chip, the GDDR5, to transfer data at up to six gigabits per second rates. The new 512 MB GDDR5 chip is alleged to process data twice as fast as nowadays' technology, which would dramatically improve the gaming ...

3 December 2007
07:00 GMT

Hynix Rolls Out the World's First 1Gb GDDR5 DRAM Module

Semiconductor manufacturers are constantly trying to improve on the design of their graphics memory modules (which have already reached extremely high processing speeds), in order to relieve the CPU and DDR RAM memory from the stress imposed by graphics-intensive applications and open the road for higher-quality mult...

15 November 2007
13:36 GMT

Faster and Bigger Video Memories

Graphics card market is a very dynamic one as manufacturers of both graphics processing units and integrated boards fight to squeeze as much performance as possible for their designs. While graphics processing units, GPUs for short, get just about all the credit for the graphics performance, there is a component that...

30 August 2007
05:39 GMT

Qimonda Prepares GDDR5 Testing Solution

Some time ago, Qimonda AG was announcing its intentions of beginning the manufacturing process for GDDR5 memory modules, which they claimed to be the future in graphics memory. Their idea was bald, sorta, but it also had some downsides. First you have to consider that the main graphics chips being used on the majorit...

18 April 2007
05:16 GMT

Qimonda Plans GDDR5

Qimonda AG - according to market studies made by iSuppli - is the second graphics manufacturer in the world, after Samsung. They want to skip ahead by leaving GDDR4 memory production behind in favor of GDDR5 memory. The previous rename that Infineon had built up helped Qimonda triple its share market from 10 to 30%.A...

26 March 2007
08:33 GMT


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