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Article: Samsung Now Mass Producing 50-percent Faster Graphics Memory; New 900 MHz GDDR3 Enabling Richer Imagery in High-end PCs.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- December 13, 2005
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced that it is mass producing the fastest graphics memory device in the world -- a 900 MHz Graphics Double Data Rate 3 (GDDR3) chip. The device -- already being used in graphics cards for PCs, workstations and notebooks -- is 50 percent faster than the previous computer memory chip produced in large volume.
"NVIDIA is now shipping the GeForce 7800 GTX 512 graphics card, which some experts have proclaimed the fastest graphics card on the planet(1), and which benefits greatly from Samsung's new 900 Mhz GDDR3 memory chips," said Bryn Young, Director of Memory ...