Soon after Qimonda AG started shipping 512Mb GDDR5 memory module, Hynix announced the availability of it's GDDR5 memory which doubles the capacity to 1 Gigabit. It operates at 5Gbps bandwidth and processes up to 20 Gigabytes of data per second with a 32-bit I/O, ideal in applications with high definition video and cinematic and photo-realistic graphics content. A bandwidth of 20 Gigabytes per second offered by the Hynix 1Gb GDDR5 can process more than 20 hours of DVD quality video.

Hynix plans to start mass production of GDDR5 in the first half of next year.

[Press Release]