GDDR6 demand growth in non-PC areas: GeForce 11 system costs can't hold back?

In economics, supply and demand affects price is a basic theorem. NVIDIA's new generation GeForce graphics card, which is expected to be released in Cologne, Germany on August 20, will not be cheaper. First, because the 10 series inventory is not low, the second is GDDR6. The high memory capacity leads to high purchase price. Now, in the GDDR6 memory, there are new changes in the situation.

According to EE Times, in addition to PC customers, manufacturers of GDDR6 memory chips are beginning to feel the growing number of auto-driving cars, AR/VR hardware, video processing chips, data center/web applications, cryptocurrencies, and AI/ML products. Demand.

The advantage of GDDR memory chips lies in the extremely high frequency (speed) and bandwidth. In the current semiconductor era with huge streaming throughput, it has a good advantage.

At present, there are Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron, which offer GDDR6 memory and shipments. The pin bandwidth starts at 10Gbps, which is far better than the theoretical 8Gbps of GDDR5 era, and the capacity of single chip is also increased to 8Gb (1GB).

If the capacity cannot keep up, then the GDDR6 products in the PC field, such as graphics cards, will have to rise in the market.