Con il comunicato stampa di seguito allegato, la nipponica Elpida Memory ha annunciato il completamento della fase di sviluppo di chip di memoria G-DDR5 aventi una densità pari a 1-gigabit e capaci di operare ad una velocità che può raggiungere il valore di 6Gbps (un simile risultato non è ad oggi ottenibile da nessun altro prodotto presente sul mercato, ndr).

Le nuove memorie G-DDR5, il cui product number è EDW1032BABG, sono state progettate per l'impiego in abbinamento alle gpu (Graphics Processing Unit) presenti non soltano in ambito consumer/ludico ma anche a quelle utilizzate nei settori professionali, come quelli della ricerca, della simulazione della fisica e della elaborazione delle immagini.

In accordo al produttore i primi sample saranno disponibili per la spedizione a Dicembre mentre la produzione di massa, in assenza di particolari criticità, avrà inizio nel secondo trimestre del prossimo anno.

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Tokyo/Japan, Munich/Germany, November 19, 2009 – Elpida Memory, Inc. (TOKYO: 6665), Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced that it had developed a 1-gigabit GDDR5 (product name: EDW1032BABG) that operates at a world-class high speed of 6Gbps. The new graphic memory (GDDR: Graphics Double Data Rate) device marks Elpida's first successful step in the GDDR market.

Applications for GDDR memory devices used with GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) are found not only in such graphic processing equipment as game consoles and PC graphics cards but also in equipment that require high-performance computing for use in such areas as science and technology, physical simulation, digital image processing and video conversion.

In August Elpida announced plans to enter the graphics DRAM business based on its acquisition of GDDR design assets from the German company Qimonda AG. The successful development of the new GDDR product in only three months using these design assets was made possible by close cooperation between Elpida's new Munich Design Center in Germany, an Elpida Japan-based technology team and engineers at Taiwan-based Winbond Electronics Corporation.

After concluding an evaluation at the Munich Design Center, sample shipments will start in December and mass production is expected to begin in the second quarter (April-June) of CY 2010.

Elpida is now involved in all areas of the DRAM market – commodity DRAMs, GDDR for the graphics market, high-speed XDR DRAM and Mobile RAM for mobile equipment. By becoming one of the few full-range suppliers Elpida expects to play an increasingly important role in the DRAM market with its "total memory solutions" approach.

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