Innovation has no boundary, Samsung Electronics has announced its world’s fastest memory, a GDDR5 (series five, graphics double-data-rate memory) chip that can transfer data at six gigabits per second (Gbps). The GDDR5 wil be introduced at a density of 512MB (16MBx32) chips, which is capable of transmitting moving images and associated data at 24GBps, wow. Furthermore, it operates at 1.5volts, about 20% improvement in power consumption over today’s most popular chip, the GDDR3.

Samples of Samsung’s new GDDR5 chip have been delivered to major graphic processor companies and mass production is expected in the first half of 2008. Samsung expects that GDDR5 memory chips will become the de facto standard in the top performing segment of the market by capturing more than 50% of the high-end PC graphics market by 2010.

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