Samsung Begins Mass Production of High-performance

amsung the world leader in advanced memory technology and the leading
producer of high-end graphics memory, announced today that it has
begun mass producing GDDR5 graphics memory using 50-nanometer class
process technology.

"Our early 2009 introduction of GDDR5 chips will help us to meet the
growing demand for higher performance graphics memory in PCs, graphic
cards and game consoles," said Mueez Deen, director, mobile and
graphics memory, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. "Because GDDR5 is the
fastest and highest performing memory in the world, we're able to
improve the gaming experience with it across all platforms," he added.

Designed to support a maximum data transfer speed of 7.0Gbps (gigabits
per second), Samsung's GDDR5 will render more life-like (3D) imaging
with a maximum 28GB/s (gigabytes per second) bandwidth, which is more
than twice that of the previous fastest graphics memory bandwidth of
12.8GB/s for GDDR4. The ultra-fast processing speed is equivalent to
transferring nineteen 1.5GB DVD resolution movies in one second. The
high image processing speed of the GDDR5 also supports the latest data
formats (Blu-ray and full HD).

Unlike GDDR4, which processes data and images using the
strobe-and-clock technique, the processing speed of the GDDR5 is much
faster because GDDR5 operates with a free-running clock that does not
require the data read/write function to be synchronized to the
operations of the clock.