{"id":117067,"date":"2017-04-25T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=117067"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:15:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T19:15:19","slug":"sk-hynix-will-launch-gddr6-vram-by-early-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/117067-sk-hynix-will-launch-gddr6-vram-by-early-2018","title":{"rendered":"SK Hynix will launch GDDR6 VRAM by early 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memory manufacturer SK Hynix has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skhynix.com\/eng\/pr\/pressReleaseView.do?seq=2086&amp;offset=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>introduced<\/strong><\/a> the world\u2019s first GDDR6 memory, which features improved bandwidth and speed.<\/p>\n<p>The graphics memory will enter mass production by early 2018, and will be implemented in high-end graphics cards.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the product\u00a0has an I\/O data rate of 16Gbps per pin, and can process up to 768GB of graphics data per second when implemented in a graphics card with a 384-bit interface.<\/p>\n<p>GDDR6 is a next-generation memory standard under development by JEDEC, and\u00a0runs twice as fast as GDDR5 VRAM while operating at a lower voltage.<\/p>\n<p>SK Hynix said DRAM density for graphics cards would continue to increase, and its GDDR6 memory could see use in AI projects.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/208138-sk-hynix-to-launch-gddr6-graphics-memory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong> and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/207872-the-future-of-semiconductors.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The future of semiconductors<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memory manufacturer SK Hynix has introduced the world\u2019s first GDDR6 memory, which features improved bandwidth and speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":84543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16727,1121,24287],"class_list":["post-117067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-gddr6","tag-memory","tag-sk-hynix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}