Nvidia will buy HMB3 memory chips, SK hynix says

HBM 3 chip manufactured by SK hynix [SK hynix]

SK hynix said Thursday it has started mass production of a high-end product, marketed as the world's fastest DRAM, and will supply it to American graphics-chip maker Nvidia.

It came seven months after the Korean chipmaker said it successfully developed the High Bandwidth Memory 3 (HMB3), with DRAM chips stacked vertically to raise the data processing rate.

The latest DRAM "comes with the biggest capacity and significantly improved level of quality," the company said in a statement.

The company expected HMB3 to be used in high-performance data centers and machine learning platforms.

Nvidia, based in Santa Clara, California, is the largest chipmaker in the United States by market value.

Nvidia recently finished its performance review of HMB3 and will use it in its latest graphic processor unit, the H100, which is expected to be launched in the third quarter, according to SK hynix.

SK hynix said it will ramp up production of the HMB3 in line with Nvidia's product launch schedule.

Yonhap