Samsung announces GDDR4 chip

Samsung has come out with what they say is the world’s fastest graphics memory chip.

The chipmaker announced on Tuesday that they had achieved a data-transfer rate of 12.8 gigabytes a second to a video processor. That is 30 percent faster than the previous prototype and can allow the equivalent of up to six DVD-quality movies every second. The astonishing speed was reached via the new GDDR4 chip, which is an 80-nm 512-MBit graphics double date rate DRAM chip.

The chip is expected to be produced in mass quantities beginning next month, just in time for what is expected to be a giant switchover from 32-bit to 64-bit computing.