Samsung today announced that it has developed the industry’s first 24GB GDDR7 DRAM. It is intended for data centers, AI workstations, but also for end-user use in graphics cards, game consoles and autonomous driving.
The new memory has twice the capacity of last year’s 16GB GDDR7 DRAM, revealed. The chip is built on a fifth-generation 10nm-class process, which improves cell density by 50% while maintaining the same size as its predecessor.
The speed can reach 42.5 Gbps, 25% higher than the previous version, thanks to three-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM3). Energy efficiency has improved by more than 30%, according to the company’s claims.
Validation of 24GB GDDR7 DRAM in leading GPU client AI systems will begin this year. The commercialization of the chip is planned for early 2025.