Samsung is nearing a big milestone with HBM3E as it enters the final stages of NVIDIA’s qualification testing. This is a major win for Samsung, which has been looking to land deals with significant clients such as NVIDIA and AMD given its hierarchical memory solution right out of the gate. While Samsung was able to integrate its memory products with AMD, the use at NVIDIA ran into several setbacks. Initial reports said that Samsung was having problems with HBM3, but NVIDIA’s CEO mentioned later that the work hadn’t been finalized.
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According to a report by Bloomberg, the South Korean tech giant has qualified its new manufacturing process required for High Bandwidth Memory 3. If approved, Samsung and NVIDIA could very well establish a partnership that sees the former outfit as both fabricators of choice for prospective small to medium production runs but also able to front what is alleged as some big orders anticipated with NVIDIA’s next-generation Blackwell GPUs. Additionally, this partnership would be vital since NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPUs are poised to generate a significant high-performance memory demand tailwind.
This is key as the South Korean tech giant has a storied history of being at the vanguard in driving memory industry standards. The company had been a major player in the memory game for years but with HBM, AMD was visibly behind thanks to competitor SK hynix quickly working on NVIDIA and capitalizing off their collaboration as well as riding high on the new wave of next-gen video cards using expensive/fast/high bandwidth HBM. Nonetheless, the prospects for HBM3 or even HBM3E still appear good if the South Korean tech giant manages to recover in time.
According to Morgan Stanley, this deal represents only a small portion of the $71 billion opportunity that is expected for HBM in sockets and within data centers throughout 2027. This growth spells good news for Samsung’s memory business in the near future. For NVIDIA, a partnership on the biggest supply with deep production and quality expertise supports its long-term roadmap to advance next-generation technologies with optimized capability.
FAQs
When will Samsung’s HBM3E memory be available for NVIDIA GPUs?
In 2-4 months.
What is the impact of Samsung’s HBM3E memory?
It will boost production and supply for NVIDIA’s AI GPUs.
