Samsung Agrees To Manufacture 24 Gb DDR5 ICs, Up To 768 GB Sticks Now Possible

In a surprising turn, Samsung announced that information technology is manufacturing 24 gigabyte DDR5 memory capable chips after agreeing to the demand of enterprise customers, especially the market that utilizes deject datacenters. With Samsung catering to those consumers, information technology volition allow the company to create retentivity capacities of up to 768 gigabytes (per stick) to exist used for customer servers and offer higher retention options for those customer's computers. In add-on to this announcement, Samsung released details about its extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) DRAM.

"In club to meet the demand and request by the cloud companies, we are also developing a maximum 24Gb DDR5 product..."

— A Samsung executive during a contempo earnings conference

Samsung showed consumers and enthusiasts their 512 gigabyte RDIMM that utilizes 32 x 16GB stacks that was modeled from viii x 16GB DRAM products. The process allows for efficient signaling and keeps power levels downwards.

Samsung has the possibility of increasing the capacity of a 32 chip module to the aforementioned 768GB past taking 24 gigabit memory ICs and using them in what is considered 8-Hi stacks. With this procedure, the RDIMM could use a server CPU's 8 channels that use two modules on each aqueduct, thus calculation over 12 terabytes of DDR5 retention. Currently, the Intel Xeon Ice Lake-SP processor can only back up a maximum of six terabytes of DRAM.

Presently, clients are but able to readily access 16 Gb DDR5 on the marketplace, and Samsung states that it volition be some time earlier nosotros actually see 24Gb DDR5 products available. With the current engineering limitations, it is difficult to increase the available capacity of a memory IC two times the size. To do so would limit the corporeality of space for the structures of the capacitors and DRAM transistors and cause impossibilities to allow working on node-to-node structures.

Our 14 nm DRAM is the smallest pattern rule in the industry's xiv nm class...

...Nosotros will mass produce this product in the second one-half by applying EUV to five layers.

—statement from a Samsung executive.

There is no specific date prepare for Samsung to release 24Gb DDR5 retention chips. Currently, Samsung is testing 16 Gb-based 512GB RDIMMs for clients utilizing servers for their organizations in an try to remain competitive with other rival companies with 24 Gb-based 768 RDIMMs in the pipeline.