SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest reminiscence chipmaker after Samsung Electronics Co., stated on Friday it showcased its next-generation reminiscence semiconductor applied sciences on the OCP World Summit 2023 in San Jose, California October 17-19.
The annual discussion board, hosted by the world’s largest knowledge heart tech group, the Open Compute Challenge (OCP), brings collectively business specialists to share concepts and showcase cutting-edge chip applied sciences and gadgets.
This 12 months, SK and its San Jose-based NAND flash reminiscence affiliate Solidigm arrange an illustration sales space to point out their superior reminiscence merchandise, appropriate for generative synthetic intelligence (AI) gadgets.
On the occasion, SK stated it offered a broad vary of merchandise, together with HBM3, HBM3E, CXL and AiM.
HBM3E, the prolonged model of HBM3, or excessive bandwidth reminiscence 3, is fifth-generation DRAM reminiscence. HBM is high-value, high-performance reminiscence that vertically interconnects a number of DRAM chips, dramatically growing knowledge processing velocity in contrast with earlier DRAM merchandise.
CXL, brief for laptop specific hyperlink, is a next-generation interface that provides effectivity to accelerators, DRAM and storage gadgets used with central processing items (CPUs) in high-performance server techniques.
AiM, or accelerator in reminiscence, is the identify of SK Hynix’s PIM product, a DRAM that helps course of knowledge like a CPU.
The corporate additionally unveiled among the newest additions to its product portfolio resembling DDR5 RDIMM, MCR DIMM, enterprise SDD and LPDDR CAMM gadgets.
SK stated guests to its sales space confirmed eager curiosity in HBM3 put in on Nvidia Corp.’s H100, a high-performance graphics processing unit (GPU).
Demand for HBM is rising quickly as it’s used to energy generative AI gadgets like ChatGPT, high-performance knowledge facilities and machine studying platforms.
POTENTIAL GAME-CHANGER
SK Hynix stated it pins excessive hopes on its CXL merchandise, rising as a game-changer within the quickly evolving semiconductor business.
The corporate demonstrated three of its CXL merchandise on the occasion, together with a CXL-based computational reminiscence answer (CMS) 2.0, which makes use of near-memory processing (NMP) structure to handle CPU reminiscence bottlenecks and enhance processing efficiency.
SK utilized CMS 2.0 to SK Telecom Co.’s real-time foot visitors evaluation service on the present for instance its knowledge processing energy equal to that of a server CPU.
The chipmaker collaborated with software program supplier MemVerge Inc. to exhibit its CXL-based pooled reminiscence answer, which considerably reduces idle reminiscence utilization and shortens the overhead time of knowledge motion in AI and large knowledge environments.
SK additionally showcased a prototype of AiMX, a generative AI accelerator card that mixes GDDR6 chips to boost AI efficiency, with its response time 10 occasions quicker than a traditional GPU and fewer energy consumption.
“Because the world’s No. 1 AI reminiscence answer supplier, we are going to proceed to deal with business challenges and make technological breakthroughs within the AI period,” stated an SK Hynix govt.
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In-Soo Nam edited this text.
