Samsung has made RAM of 512 GB

Korean giant Samsung has made a RAM of as much as 512 GB, which is the world's first memory with space for that amount of data.

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Samsung Electronics announced that it has expanded its DDR5 DRAM memory portfolio with the first industrial DDR5 module of 512 GB, and this RAM memory is based on high-K Metal Gate (HKMG) process technology.

Providing more than double DDR4 performance at speeds of up to 7,200 megabits per second (Mbps), the new DDR5 will be capable of orchestrating the most extreme workloads of demanding computers, high bandwidth in supercomputing, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), as well as data analytics applications.

Samsung's DDR5 will use highly advanced HKMG technology traditionally used in logical semiconductors. By continuing to reduce DRAM structures, the insulation layer thinned and there was a larger power leak.

By replacing the insulator with HKMG material, Samsung's DDR5 will be able to reduce leakage and will have higher performance. This new memory will also use approximately 13% less energy. This makes it particularly suitable for data centers where energy efficiency is becoming increasingly critical.

Samsung first used HKMG technology in 2018 with GDDR6 chips used in GPUs. HKMG technology was developed by Intel and it uses hafnium instead of silicon, and metals replace normal polysilicon electrodes.

Eight layers of 16Gb DRAM chips

 Using silicon (TSV) technology, Samsung's DDR5 stacks eight layers of 16Gb DRAM chips to offer a maximum capacity of 512GB. TSV was first used in DRAM in 2014 when Samsung introduced server modules with capacities up to 256 GB.

Although the eyes of gamer and other professionals whose work requires a lot of computer power are wide open as they read these lines, these memory will not be found in our home machines.

The main reason for this is that the largest number of computers has a limit for RAM memory that is much smaller, and that depending on the computer, is about 64GB or 128GB.

Also, these modules are designed to be used in medical research, the financial market or autonomous driving.

The first processors that can use 512GB RAM are last-generation Intel processors coming out in the second half of the year.