ISTANBUL

Samsung will begin mass production of the world's first sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory, known as HBM4, next week, media reports said Sunday.

The company plans to start shipping HBM4 chips following the Lunar New Year holiday, for use in graphics processing units (GPUs) made by Nvidia Corp., Seoul-based Yonhap News reported, citing industry sources.

Nvidia's GPUs are widely used in generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

The global HBM market is currently dominated by fifth-generation HBM3E chips, but industry observers expect HBM4 to emerge as a key technology.

Nvidia plans to adopt HBM4 in its next-generation AI accelerator, named Vera Rubin.

Samsung has passed Nvidia's quality certification process and secured purchase orders.​​​​​​​

The production schedule was finalized to align with Nvidia's launch plans for Vera Rubin.

Samsung has also increased the volume of HBM4 samples for customer-side module testing under the latest purchase order.