{"id":157011,"date":"2025-11-24T12:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/157011\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:43:10","slug":"chinas-cxmt-challenges-samsung-and-sk-hynix-with-cutting-edge-ddr5-ai-memory-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/157011\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s CXMT challenges Samsung and SK Hynix with cutting-edge DDR5 AI memory chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China has made significant progress in artificial intelligence hardware as the country\u2019s top memory chipmaker has joined Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix to supply some of the world\u2019s most advanced products.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) on Sunday unveiled its new Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DRAM) products with high frequency and expanded memory, which are vital for state-of-the-art AI computing servers and stacks.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The DRAM chips were released at the China International Semiconductor Expo in Beijing. The products \u2013 targeted at high-end markets \u2013 reflect the company\u2019s efforts to challenge the dominance of South Korea\u2019s Samsung and SK Hynix, and Micron Technology of the US.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Global demand for DDR5 DRAM memory products is surging thanks to an AI investment frenzy, pushing prices higher amid tight supply. The chips function as high-speed memory systems, allowing rapid storage and access to vast amounts of data required for AI model training and inference.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CXMT\u2019s new products reflect the company\u2019s intensified efforts to catch up with global makers of advanced memory chips. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/bfe5fb8d-4d82-4913-97e3-97d73daeff7e_1126e908.jpg\" title=\"CXMT\u2019s new products reflect the company\u2019s intensified efforts to catch up with global makers of advanced memory chips. Photo: Handout\"\/>CXMT\u2019s new products reflect the company\u2019s intensified efforts to catch up with global makers of advanced memory chips. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">CXMT\u2019s new DDR5 products reached speeds of up to 8,000 megabits per second (Mbps) and had a maximum die capacity of 24 gigabits, according to a statement from the company.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The products are divided into seven major memory modules, including UDIMM, the standard type for desktops, as well as SODIMM for laptops and MRDIMM for data centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China has made significant progress in artificial intelligence hardware as the country\u2019s top memory chipmaker has joined Samsung&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,88478,218,219,88477,88473,88474,88476,61,60,88475,30052,86994,573,5688,81767,80],"class_list":["post-157011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-inference","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-chip-self-sufficiency","tag-cxmt","tag-ddr5","tag-dram","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lpddr5x","tag-memory-chips","tag-micron","tag-samsung","tag-semiconductors","tag-sk-hynix","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}