Micron has reportedly been given the greenlight by NVIDIA to become part the company’s list of suppliers for memory chips. This officially makes it the third memory supplier to the green tech giant, after Samsung and Hynix.
According to Benchlife, Micron will now be a provider of memory chips, specifically for the GDDR7 variety used in NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 50 Series. The memory chip maker announced last year that it had begun sampling its GDDR7 memory, at speeds of 28Gbps and 32Gbps, using its 1β process technology.
Samsung is currently the primary supplier of memory chips for NVIDIA’s RTX 50 Series, due to them having better memory timings and overall performance on the GPUs. Another South Korea-based memory maker, Hynix, also makes GDDR7 chips, but are used in the manufacturing of mid-range to high-end RTX 50 Series GPUs. Some AIB partners have said voiced their personal preference for memory for Samsung’s chips over Hynix, citing worse memory timings with the latter over the former.
One possible reason why NVIDIA is taking GDDR7 memory order for Micron could be due to the recent news and rumours of the GPU brand’s upcoming RTX 50 Super Series GPUs, and how these upcoming models will be using 3GB memory modules, rather than the current 2GB modules being used in the non-Super models. To be clear, we’re not saying that neither Samsung nor Hynix are incapable of providing the same modules, but it’s clear that the last thing NVIDIA wants is a supply and scarcity issue of consumer GPU market.
(Source: Benchlife, Videocardz)
