News SK hynix develops 6th-gen 10nm-class DDR5 with the world's first 16Gb DRAM modules — chipmaker claims electric savings of up to 30% for data centers

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SK Hynix has announced its 6th-generation DDR5 DRAM ICs on its 10 nm process node. The new modules are 11% faster and 9% more energy efficient than their predecessors.

SK hynix develops 6th-gen 10nm-class DDR5 with the world's first 16Gb DRAM modules — chipmaker claims electric savings of up to 30% for data centers : Read more

 

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reportedly 11% faster than its previous-generation counterpart and 9% more energy efficient. Thanks to the power efficiency of its 6th Gen 1c process, SK hynix believes data centers’ electricity bills can be reduced by up to 30%.

Do those numbers make sense? I guess they are assuming these hypothetical data centers uninstall some cooling too.

 

[thestryker]

1c is SK Hynix’s first 16Gb DRAM module

This isn't accurate as the vast majority of DDR5 is already using 16Gb IC (it's their first 16Gb on the 1c node).

The article links to the Chinese press release so here's the English one: https://news.skhynix.com/sk-hynix-develops-industry-first-1c-ddr5/

The datacenter claims don't really make a lot of sense and I'm assuming there's a lot of jumping through hoops to come up with that. They're probably looking at rack density and memory bandwidth capability even though DRAM by itself isn't the driver there.