South Korean chip giant Samsung Electronics has announced the successful development of an innovative high-bandwidth memory chip that is said to have the highest capacity to date. The performance and capacity of the HBM3E 12H are improved by more than 50%, making it ideal for addressing the growing demand for AI services.
Yongcheol Bae, Executive Vice President, Memory Product Planning, Samsung Electronics, said, "Our new product, the HBM3E 12H, is designed to meet the increasing demand for higher capacity HBMs from AI service providers. This is part of our technologically advanced contribution to the era of AI in high-stack HBM core technologies. ”
The company highlights that this new memory solution is part of an effort to meet the needs of the high-capacity HBM market in the era of artificial intelligence, demonstrating its leadership in technological innovation.
Samsung Electronics is the world's largest manufacturer of DRAM chips, which are widely used in consumer devices such as smartphones and computers. In the field of artificial intelligence, generative AI models such as OpenAI's ChatGPT have a more urgent need for high-performance memory chips that can more flexibly process large amounts of conversational and user preference data to generate more human-friendly responses.
With the explosive growth of AI applications, high-performance memory chips such as the HBM3E 12H are expected to be the preferred solution for systems that require larger memory in the future. Its superior performance and capacity enable customers to manage resources more flexibly while reducing the total cost of ownership of the data center.
Samsung said it has started providing chip samples to customers, and plans to achieve mass production of the HBM3E 12H in the first half of 2024. Analysts said it was expected to significantly boost Samsung's profitability. Daiwa Executive Director SK Kim told CNBC: "I think this news will have a positive impact on Samsung's share price. ”
In the artificial intelligence industry, Nvidia, a chip design company, saw its revenue grow 265% in the fiscal fourth quarter due to a surge in demand for its graphics processing units. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that with the exponential growth of AI applications, the HBM3E 12H is expected to be the best solution for systems that require more memory in the future.