Samsung begins HBM4 chip shipments in effort to catch up in AI race

SEOUL: Samsung Electronics said on Thursday that it has started shipping the latest high-bandwidth memory chips, HBM4, to unnamed customers, as the chipmaker races to catch up with rivals in supplying to Nvidia.

The global rush ‌to build ⁠AI ⁠data centers has fuelled demand for HBM, a type of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) that helps process massive amounts of data generated by complex artificial intelligence applications.

Samsung, the world’s top memory chipmaker, had been slow in responding to the advanced AI chip market, lagging behind rivals in supplying ⁠previous-generation HBM ‌chips.