SK hynix DRAM and eSSDs Validated With AMD EPYC 7002

SK hynix Inc. announced that its DRAM and enterprise SSD (eSSD) solutions, including the up-to-date 1Ynm 8Gb DDR4 DRAM, have been tested and validated with the AMD EPYC 7002 generation processors, which were unveiled during AMD’s launch event on August 7.

The company has worked with AMD to provide memory solutions compatible with the 2nd gen MD EPYC processors, targeting data centers.

The DDR4 DRAM supports the maximum speed of 3,200Mbps of the 2nd gen EPYC processors¹, which will increase memory performance more than 20% compared to the 1st gen AMD EPYC processors. The company’s various DDR4 DRAM solutions, based on the 1Xnm and 1Ynm technology with density of 8Gb and 16Gb, have been tested and validated with the 2nd gen EPYC pProcessors. It provides DIMMs with density over 64GB to support up to 64 cores per socket in the 2nd gen EPYC.

SK hynix also provides a line-up of SATA and PCIe from 480GB to 8TB, which have also been validated and tested with the 2nd gen EPYC. eSSD solutions are optimized for the data center’s read-intensive and mixed workload environment.

“The latest partnership with AMD will reinforce SK hynix’s strength in the memory solution industry and further promote the company as a total memory semiconductor company providing data center-oriented DRAM and SSD solutions optimized for system requirements,” said Jae Hyeong Lee, head of product planning and enabling, SK hynix.

Delivering a consistent feature set of I/O, memory and security features, across 8 to 64 Zen 2 cores, the EPYC 7002 Series processor delivers agility from a balanced set of features.

“We’re excited and thankful to have our partners like SK hynix supporting the launch of AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors,” said Scott Aylor, corporate VP and GM, datacenter solutions group, AMD. “Their EPYC based solutions are poised to deliver a new standard for modern datacenter customers. With twice the cores, breakthrough performance and embedded security features, all delivered by a leadership architecture, customers can transform their datacenter operations at the pace of their business.“

¹ Some supported features and functionality of second gen AMD EPYC processors (code named Rome) require a BIOS update from server manufacturer when used with a motherboard designed for the first gen EPYC 7000 series processor.

A motherboard designed for Rome processors is required to enable all available functionality. ROM-06