Sam | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:35:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Sam | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 SK Hynix and Samsung to showcase latest memory advancements at IEEE-SSCC https://www.kitguru.net/components/memory/joao-silva/sk-hynix-and-samsung-to-showcase-latest-memory-advancements-at-ieee-sscc/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/memory/joao-silva/sk-hynix-and-samsung-to-showcase-latest-memory-advancements-at-ieee-sscc/#respond Tue, 30 Jan 2024 13:45:09 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=646244 Samsung and SK Hynix have much to show at the IEEE Solid State Circuit Conference (SSCC). The event, which is scheduled to run from February 18th to the 22nd in San Francisco, will see both companies showing their upcoming memory products, including GDDR7 memory, 16-layer HBM3E stacks, faster LPDDR5T and DDR5 memory, and 280-layer 3D …

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Samsung and SK Hynix have much to show at the IEEE Solid State Circuit Conference (SSCC). The event, which is scheduled to run from February 18th to the 22nd in San Francisco, will see both companies showing their upcoming memory products, including GDDR7 memory, 16-layer HBM3E stacks, faster LPDDR5T and DDR5 memory, and 280-layer 3D QLC NAND flash.

According to @harukaze5719, Samsung will showcase GDDR7 memory chips at the event, providing updates over what was previously shown by Samsung in 2022. GDDR7 memory is primarily designed for gaming consoles and graphics cards, offering a massive bandwidth increase compared to GDDR6 and GDDR6X. Samsung is likely to introduce a GDDR7 chip that can handle 37 Gbps data throughput and has a density of 16 Gbit (2GB). The high speeds of GDDR7 memory technology are achieved thanks to the use of PAM3 signalling and the four read clock modes that help with power management when the device is not in use. Both NVIDIA and AMD are expected to use GDDR7 in their next-gen GPUs.

In addition to the 37 Gbps GDDR7 memory, Samsung plans to showcase other memory advancements at the 2024 IEEE-SSCC. The company is introducing a new 280-layer 3D QLC NAND flash memory with a density of 1 Tb, which will power the next generation of popular SSDs and smartphone storage. This chip has an area density of 28.5 Gb/mm² and a speed of 3.2 GB/s. To put this into perspective, the fastest 3D NAND flash types that power the current flagship NVMe SSDs use 2.4 GB/s chips.

Samsung is also introducing a new generation DDR5 memory chip with transfer speeds of DDR5-8000 and a density of 32 Gbit (4GB). This device has a symmetric-mosaic DRAM cell design and is based on Samsung's 5th generation 10nm class foundry node, optimised for DRAM products. This chip is remarkable because it enables PC memory manufacturers to produce 32GB and 48GB DIMMs in single-rank configuration with DDR5-8000 speeds, as well as 64GB and 96GB DIMMs in dual-rank configuration.

However, Samsung is not the only Korean memory giant to showcase its latest technology at the next IEEE SSCC. SK Hynix will also be there, demonstrating rival technology across both volatile and non-volatile memory segments. SK Hynix will be the second manufacturer to demonstrate GDDR7 memory after Samsung. The SK Hynix memory has a 16 Gbit density and can handle 35.4 Gbps, which is slightly slower than Samsung's 37 Gbps. SK Hynix, like Samsung, uses PAM3 I/O signalling and a proprietary low-power architecture.

SK Hynix also has a new HBM3E product to show, a new 16-high 48GB (384 Gbit) HBM3E stack architecture that can handle 1280GB/s over a single stack. The stack employs an all-around power TSV (through silicon via) architecture and a 6-phase RDQS (read data queue strobe) method to optimise TSV space. Lastly, SK Hynix sessions will include the first demonstrations of their ambitious LPDDR5T (LPDDR5 Turbo) memory aimed at smartphones, tablets, and thin-and-light laptops. This memory delivers a data throughput of 10.5 Gb/s per pin and a DRAM voltage of 1.05 V. Such high data rates are possible due to the WCK-correction strategy employed, as well as the patented parasitic capacitance reduction technique and a voltage-offset calibrated receiver.

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AMD Ryzen 3000 series will support Smart Access Memory https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/joao-silva/amd-ryzen-3000-series-will-support-smart-access-memory/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/joao-silva/amd-ryzen-3000-series-will-support-smart-access-memory/#respond Thu, 04 Mar 2021 09:30:48 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=506447 During the announcement of the Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card, AMD also confirmed that it will bring Smart Access Memory support to the Ryzen 3000 series desktop processors, excluding the Ryzen 5 3400G and the Ryzen 3 3200G. It seems AMD has taken the community's feedback into consideration and decided to enable SAM (Smart Access …

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During the announcement of the Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card, AMD also confirmed that it will bring Smart Access Memory support to the Ryzen 3000 series desktop processors, excluding the Ryzen 5 3400G and the Ryzen 3 3200G.

It seems AMD has taken the community's feedback into consideration and decided to enable SAM (Smart Access Memory) on Zen2-based processors. The confirmation was made during the “Where Gaming Begins: Episode 3” stream yesterday. AMD also confirmed that SAM will bring about the same performance increase (up to 16%) on systems using Ryzen 3000 CPUs as it does on the ones using Ryzen 5000 CPUs.

AMD Smart Access Memory is a technology based on the PCIe Resizable BAR standard. By using SAM/PCIe Resizable BAR, the data channel between the CPU and the GPU is expanded, increasing bandwidth, which results in a theoretical performance increase.

This is a move that we did see coming eventually. We have previously shared screenshots of Asus and MSI motherboards with SAM enabled while using Zen and Zen2 processors, meaning that the ability to enable it was more of a restriction from AMD than an incompatibility.

Nvidia also has announced recently that it will bring PCIe Resizable BAR support to its RTX 30 series graphics cards. Nvidia mentioned that AMD 400-series motherboards would be compatible, but only when using Zen3 processors. Considering AMD's announcement, Nvidia might extend it to the Zen2 processors as well.

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iPad killer? Exclusive photos @ Computex https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/netbook/faith/ipad-killer-exclusive-photos/ https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/netbook/faith/ipad-killer-exclusive-photos/#comments Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:07:33 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=4212 The whole iPad phenomenon has grabbed the world by the short and curlies in an amazing way. KitGuru got one of these amazing devices airlifted from the States WAY before the official launch date in the UK, simply because we could not keep our hands off it. The device is awesome – so can anything …

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The whole iPad phenomenon has grabbed the world by the short and curlies in an amazing way. KitGuru got one of these amazing devices airlifted from the States WAY before the official launch date in the UK, simply because we could not keep our hands off it. The device is awesome – so can anything stand in its way? We slipped into MSI's private booth at Computex 2010 to see.

KitGuru remembers being briefed by Microsoft about the whole tablet PC market back in 2002. There was going to be desktop warriors and corridor warriors and they's all have lightweight, connected tablets. That's 8 years ago. And hardly any company managed to touch the ‘enormous demand' that Microsoft predicted, until Steve Jobs came along and said “Tablets mate? Simple. iPad innit”. Apple launched and queues formed. So are there any alternatives?  Well, once you know what the answer might look like – you can really start to drive forward.

Sambora Chen is a very happy chappy. He has driven MSI's mainboard team from the edge of nowhere, to being the 10th biggest supplier in the world. Consider that list includes Acer, HP and Dell and you can see how big an achievement that is.

Happy chapy Sam leads the MSI drive to knock iPad out

For Sam, MSI's success is all about innovation. And lots of it. Sam's team have been invigorated by the iPad. Specifically the Apple product's failings [Surely some mistake – Ed].

For a start, limited connectivity. Follow that up with ‘No Flash' and you can see that there are weaknesses to be attacked.

Enter MSI's brand new iPad killer.

Lock up your iPads, here comes Sam

For a start it is Android 2 based. Think ‘feature rich', ‘lightning fast' and ‘power conscious'.

That means it has full support for Flash and will support any connection port that MSI cares to implement.

It's slim and it works. Enough for now.

Weight-wise, on the working prototype we saw, MSI has gone for a decent looking, ultra white plastic finish that will definitely weigh less than aluminium.

Has it got the same levels of ‘Want Want' as an iPad?  Not now.

However, if the product is (as Sam expects) much cheaper than Apple's offer, as well as :-
– Good looking
– Faster than iPad
– More feature-rich then iPad
– More connectable than iPad
– Better battery life than an iPad

All served up with a dollops of Flash, then maybe it can become MSI's first mass-market appeal product.

KitGuru says: We like MSI's portable products. As a company, it has a good eye for ‘consumer plastic' and the final result will make an interesting competitor. Hardcore Apple fans won't be swayed by anything else, but for every iPod sold – the world buys thousands of MP3 players from the competition – so MSI's new pad has a great chance of success. We'll keep the pressure on Sam to send us an early review sample and show it head to head against the iPad. We know that's what you want to see!

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