Samsung's 12-Hi HBM4E Reportedly Passes NVIDIA Qualification

Samsung has reportedly completed qualification testing of its 12-layer HBM4E memory with NVIDIA and major hyperscalers in late September, according to Hankyung. Samsung declined to confirm the report, and supply volumes and mass-production timelines remain unconfirmed.

• HBM4E offers 48 GB per stack at 14 Gbps per pin, scalable to 16 Gbps
• Bandwidth reaches up to 3.6 TB/s, over 20% above HBM4
• Built on 1c DRAM with a 4nm logic base die from Samsung Foundry
• Samsung began shipping HBM4E samples to customers in May