Nvidia Clears Samsung's HBM3 Chips For Use In China-Market Processor

Samsung Electronics' fourth-generation high bandwidth memory or HBM3 chips have been cleared by Nvidia for use in its processors for the first time, three people briefed on the matter said, Fanny Potkin and Heekyong Yang reported for Reuters.

It remains unclear if Nvidia will use Samsung's HBM3 chips in its other AI processors or if additional tests will be required. I Photo: NVIDIA

However, this greenlight is somewhat muted as Samsung's HBM3 chips will, for now, only be used in a less sophisticated Nvidia graphics processing unit (GPU), the H20, developed for the Chinese market in compliance with US export controls.

It remains unclear if Nvidia will use Samsung's HBM3 chips in its other AI processors or if additional tests will be required.

Samsung has also yet to meet Nvidia's standards for fifth-generation HBM3E chips, and testing of those chips is ongoing. HBM is a type of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) standard first produced in 2013, where chips are vertically stacked to save space and reduce power consumption.

As a key component of GPUs for artificial intelligence (AI), HBM helps process the massive amounts of data produced by complex applications.