Samsung's 7Gb/s GDDR5 in 50nm Mass Production, Targets 40nm GPUs

Korean DRAM giant Samsung has been making a lot of technology announcements recently. It touted its high density 4Gb DDR3 chips last month, and showed off its advanced 40nm process for producing 2Gb DDR3 that it plans to introduce by the end of the year.

One area of sales that it hasn't been as successful as it would like has been in the GDDR5 market, designed for use in high-end video cards. Most graphics cards have been using Qimonda's GDDR5 chips, which are both faster and cheaper than GDDR4 memory.