Samsung mass producing 512Mbit DDR3 - report

KOREAN GIANT Samsung says it has begun mass producing 512-megabit DDR3 memory chips.

The company earlier claimed to be first to produce a prototype of a 512Mbit DDR3 memory device, as we reported here.

Back then Samsung said the 1066Mbps chips would be be available early next year. It seems to have ratcheted up its plans.

The memory format is expected to feature in both XBox 360 and Playstation 3, as well as future PC graphics cards.

Reuters today reports that Samsung has put the chippery into mass production and is working on development of a 2.0 gigabit per second GDDR3 chip that will make graphics processing even faster.

The newswire said that the 512-megabit DDR3 chips can be wired up to produce transfer speeds of 6.4 gigabytes per second. The 2.0-gigabit chips could achieve 8.0 gigabyte-per-second speeds, Samsung says.

A spokesman claimed this would make the 2.0-gigabit chips the fastest graphics memory on the planet. µ

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