Samsung responds to Nvidia HBM3E reports, says ‘testing proceeding as planned’
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- Samsung (OTCPK:SSNLF) has responded to conflicting media reports regarding Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) testing its high-bandwidth memory chips, telling Seeking Alpha that testing is going “as planned.”
- “Samsung Electronics is in the process of optimizing our products through close collaboration with various customers, with testing proceeding as planned,” a Samsung spokesperson told Seeking Alpha via email.
- Last week, it was reported that Nvidia had cleared Samsung’s 8-layer HBM3E chips for use in its artificial intelligence processors. Subsequently, a South Korean news outlet denied the report that Nvidia had cleared the high-bandwidth memory chips.
- HBM is a type of dynamic random access memory which chips are vertically place to save space and curb power consumption. It helps in the processing of huge amounts of data produced by AI applications. The HBM3 chips are the fourth-generation HBM standard currently, usually used in GPUs for AI, and the fifth-generation are HBM3E chips. The HBM market is led by SK hynix, Samsung and, to a lesser extent, Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU).
- Last month, Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang said the company was reviewing HBM chips from Micron and Samsung to determine if they can compete with SK hynix.