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[November 20, 2009]

Elpida develops 1-Gigabit GDDR5 with speed of 6Gbps

(EquityBites Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Manufacturer of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) Elpida Memory Inc (TOKYO:6665) has entered the GDDR: Graphics Double Data Rate market with the development of a 1-gigabit new graphic memory GDDR5 (product name: EDW1032BABG) that operates at a speed of 6Gbps, the company disclosed on Thursday.

GDDR memory devices combined with GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) are used in equipment such as game consoles and PC graphics cards besides in high-performance computing equipment used in science and technology, physical simulation, digital image processing and video conversion.

Elpida acquired GDDR design assets from Qimonda AG, a German company and announced plans to enter the graphics DRAM business. It new Munich Design Centre in Germany cooperated with an Elpida Japan technology team and engineers at Taiwan's Winbond Electronics Corporation to design the GDDR.

Sample shipments will start in December and mass production will begin in the second quarter of calendar year 2010, the company stated.

The company added that it is now involved in all areas of the DRAM market such as commodity DRAMs, GDDR for the graphics market, high-speed XDR DRAM and Mobile RAM for mobile equipment.

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