Micron Kicks Off Production of HBM3E Memory (opens in new tab)

> launched

Not true. They announced completion of development, with intention to begin mass production in H1. So a couple months out, at least.

> Micron's memory roadmap for AI is further solidified with the upcoming release of a 36 GB 12-Hi HBM3E product in March 2024.

So likely competitive timing with Samsung for 36/12.

I swear I'm getting Deja Vu right now, I coulda sworn I've seen this thread before. There's gonna be a guy commenting that "you don't need it" somebody else saying "but I want it!" And a few trying to figure out the economics of it and whether or not it makes any sense.

Personally I'd love to have as much VRAM as possible (and as high a bandwidth as is possible too) to mess around with simulations in- but that's definitely a pro workload.

I'd love to see like a flagship card have a stupid amounts of VRAM spec option - like an RTX 4090 with 32-48gb of VRAM just to see what happens with it on the market.

Build it and people will start porting their CUDA stuff to run on other architectures.

You over estimate the 'semi-pro' market for graphics cards. Gamers are barely willing to pay for 20GB. There's no market for consumer cards with an order of magnitude more RAM until games are built to use that memory.

Don't you think Nvidia analyzed, sliced and diced the market to figure out how to maximize profits?

AMD is doing the same thing, the only high memory cards they put out (MI300) are for data centers.

until they drain the main vein, no MBA is going to greenlight artificial price inflation.