Samsung is one of the leading memory circuit manufacturers, so the fact that Samsung is the first company to start shipping next generation of graphic card memory circuits, GDDR4, comes as no surprise.The new circuits have in fact already been been sent out to the larger graphic card manufacturers for testing. Samsung claims that GDDR4 has an almost identical design as GDDR3 which should make it a piece of cake to implement these new memory circuits, thus chosing these over the competing Rambus XDR. Samsung says that GDDR4 will be able to reach 56% higher speeds than GDDR3 and considering that among others the Radeon X1800-series already supports GDDR4 we can imagine a quite bright future for this technology. Massproduction hasn't been started yet but should start during the second quarter of 2006.
Source: TGdaily
Samsung launches DDR4 memory
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