South Korea’s Yonhap news agency quoted sources in the technology sector as saying that Samsung will begin mass production of the world’s first sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory, known as HBM4.
Sources reported that production will begin later this month, explaining that the South Korean technology giant plans to start shipping "HBM4" chips as early as next week, after the Lunar New Year holiday, for use in graphics processing units (GPUs) produced by the American company Nvidia.
Nvidia's graphics processing units are widely used in generative artificial intelligence systems.
An industry source, who asked not to be named, said: "Samsung, which has the world's largest production capacity and widest product range, has proven its technological competitiveness has recovered as the first to be able to mass-produce high-performance 'HBM4' chips."
Fifth-generation HBM3E chips currently dominate the global market for high-bandwidth chips, but industry observers expect the sixth generation to emerge as a pivotal technology in the next phase.
Nvidia plans to adopt sixth-generation chips in its advanced artificial intelligence processor, called Vera Rubin.
Sources familiar with the matter reported that Samsung successfully passed Nvidia's quality certification process and received purchase orders, noting that the production schedule was set to align with Nvidia's plans to launch Vera Rubin.
