Summary:
1, On January 12th, 2016 HBM2 was accepted as JESD235a
2, HBM2 specifies up to 8 dies per staple and doubles throughput to 1 TB/s.
3, On January 19th, Samsung announced early mass production of HBM2.
4, Application: Virtual Reality, Data Center Accelerator.
5, On June 24th, 2015, AMD announced first HBM GPU, AMD Fiji which powers AMD R9 Fury X.
6, On April 5th, 2016, nVidia announced first HBM2 GPU, Tesla P100(16 nm FinFET).
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