In October 2020, SK Hynix, the second-largest memory chipmaker after Samsung, became the world’s first to release DDR5 DRAM (Double Data Rate dynamic random access memory) chips. The South Korean company continues to maintain its lead in the DDR5 DRAM technology as it announced earlier today that it’s now sampling the world’s first 24Gb (gigabit) DDR5 RAM chips with customers.
According to Yahoo Finance, the announcement came yesterday (December 14th) by SK Hynix, who stated that they have shipped samples of 24 Gigabit (GB) DDR5 DRAM with the industry’s largest density for a single DRAM chip. Previously, memory modules have typically maxed out at 16Gb of capacity per chip.
The rapid development of this higher capacity chip can be credited to SK hynix’s new 1anm manufacturing process, which uses extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography. In addition to the increased density, this new process offers an increase in production efficiency and speed by up to 33%. SK hynix expects the product to reduce carbon emissions as well, which is meaningful in the context of ESG management.
The chips also gain some benefits from the new process, including a 25% reduced power consumption for the same capacity, effectively reducing the overall system power draw while potentially offering some extra wiggle room for overclocking.
The initial offerings of the new 24GB capacity chips are set to be 48GB and 96GB modules for supply to cloud data centers. It is also expected to power high-performance servers, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning. Additionally, this increase in DDR5 DRAM capacity comes at a crucial time when the world is witnessing the dawn of the Metaverse.
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