Seoul: Samsung Electronics on Thursday hinted at the opportunity of supplying its superior excessive bandwidth reminiscence (HBM) chips to the US AI big Nvidia within the close to future.
The South Korean tech big has been struggling to have its HBM3E chips cross Nvidia’s high quality assessments, whereas its native chip making rival SK hynix lately started mass-producing industry-leading 12-layer HBM3E chips, Yonhap news company reported.
“We are currently mass-producing both eight-layer and 12-layer HBM3E products,” mentioned Kim Jae-june, vice chairman for reminiscence enterprise at Samsung Electronics, throughout a convention name following the discharge of its third-quarter earnings report.
Kim famous that the corporate has achieved “meaningful progress” in assembly high quality testing necessities for a “major customer,” anticipated to be Nvidia, whose GPUs are important for AI computing.
“We expect to expand sales in the fourth quarter,” he added, addressing earlier issues that Samsung Electronics had fallen behind in supplying HBM merchandise to Nvidia.
Samsung Electronics reported that its third-quarter HBM gross sales rose greater than 70 per cent from the earlier quarter, with the fifth-generation HBM3E chips anticipated to contribute 50 per cent of complete HBM gross sales within the fourth quarter.
“We are expanding sales of our eight- and 12-layer HBM3E chips to multiple customers,” the corporate mentioned. “We are working on improving our HBM3E in line with the next-generation GPU plans of a major customer.”
Samsung Electronics mentioned it’s creating sixth-generation HBM4 merchandise and goals to start mass manufacturing within the second half of subsequent 12 months.
In its third-quarter earnings report, Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor division posted a 3.86 trillion gained ($2.8 billion) working revenue, lacking the market expectation of 4.2 trillion gained.
Shares of Samsung Electronics rose 0.17 per cent to shut at 59,200 gained on the Seoul important bourse, outperforming the KOSPI’s 1.45 per cent drop.