[highlight]Samsung Electronics [/highlight]has developed the fastest graphics memory chip in the world. Samsung announced Monday that it has built a new 512Mb GDDR4 (Graphics Double Data Rate version4) memory chip that is 65 percent faster in transferring data than the next fastest chip.
The new chips work at 4Gb/s (gigabits per second) while currently available GDDR4 chips operate at 2.4Gb/s. Samsung used 80-nanometer production technology to make the new chips. Sample chips have been delivered to Samsung's major customers such as Nvidia, and mass production will reportedly begin during the second half of this year.
“Our new GDDR4 memory will add even more zip in video applications, making gaming, computer-aided design and video editing faster than ever before,” said Mueez Deen, marketing director for graphics memory at Samsung Semiconductor.
Samsung expects the new chip will create a new market for high-speed graphic chips for game units and graphic cards that deal with huge volumes of images.
Samsung leads the graphics memory industry, having first developing GDDR in 2000, GDDR2 in 2002, GDDR3 in 2003, and 256Mb GDDR4 in October of 2005 and mass producing GDDR4 2.4Gb/s in the middle of last year. (no link to this article)
[highlight] this is the entire story right now*... Hopefully.... this might mean the 8800GTX's prices will be coming down !! Cross your fingers ~[/highlight]
