High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) HBM1/HBM2/HBM2E/HBM3/HBM4

High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) HBM1/HBM2/HBM2E/HBM3/HBM4

High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) HBM2/HBM3

  • is a computer memory interface for 3D-stacked synchronous dynamic random-access memory (SDRAM)
  • initially from Samsung, AMD and SK Hynix
  • the first HBM memory chip was produced by SK Hynix in 2013
  • HBM was adopted by JEDEC as an industry standard in October 2013
  • HBM2, the second generation, was accepted by JEDEC in January 2016
  • HBM3, the third generation, was officially announced by JEDEC on January 27, 2022

HBM - Versions

TypeReleaseClock
(GHz)
Stackper Stack (1024 bit)
Capacity
(230 Byte)
Data rate
(GByte/s)
HBM 1Oct 20130.5
128 bit
1×4 = 4128
HBM 2Jan 20161.0…1.21×8 = 8256…307
HBM 2EAug 20191.82×8 = 16461
HBM 3Oct 20213.216×
64 bit
2×12 = 24819
HBM 420265.62×16 = 321434

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