A lot of things were said (and shown) during Computex 2024, and sometimes stupid things too. At SK hynix this took the form of a statement from one of its representatives, who explained that his company finally planned to begin volume production of GDDR7 during the first quarter of 2025. In other words, almost a quarter after its rivals Micron and Samsung, which did not fail to worry some. Fortunately, SK hynix quickly put an end to the speculation by explaining via email to Tom’s Hardware US that its GDDR7 will enter production on time during Q4 2024, as with its competitors.
Despite everything, SK hynix still seems to be a little behind. Unlike Micron and Samsung, the Korean has still not formally announced its first official GDDR7 product, of which it still showed a sample during the Computex 2024, as it had previously done at GTC 2024. We still only know that it will offer 16 and 24 Gb chips with transfer rates of up to 40 GT/s. Its competitors have also already informed that they have started sampling GDDR7 with certain partners (like NVIDIA?), while nothing of the sort has yet been communicated at SK hynix.
In any case, it is probably Micron which will once again have the favor of NVIDIA for the first RTX Blackwell, presumed RTX 5090 And RTX 5080. This feeling is reinforced by the fact that Micron has affirmed that the first products equipped with GDDR7 will arrive at the end of 2024 and has also communicated on the expected performance gains. The next Radeon RX RDNA 4 could also use GDDR7, as well as specialized AI products as a more affordable alternative to HBM. In short, whether it arrives in Q4 2024 or Q1 2025, SK hynix’s GDDR7 will be able to find a buyer somewhere. (Source: Tom’s Hardware)
