Samsung Accelerates HBM4 Sample Delivery to NVIDIA
Following the announcement of its “AI Megafactory” partnership with NVIDIA, Samsung is swiftly moving to complete the qualification process for NVIDIA’s HBM4 memory.
Certification and Sample Shipments
According to DealSite, Samsung aims to achieve final certification of HBM4 in early 2026. The South Korean memory leader has already sent engineering samples to NVIDIA.
Sources cited by Asia Economy and DealSite revealed that after finishing internal reliability tests (PRA), Samsung plans to provide customer samples for final verification this month and continue performance testing with NVIDIA.
Production and Shipment Timeline
DealSite indicates that, based on the current schedule, volume shipments of HBM4 could start in the second half of 2026.
Samsung’s Memory Offerings for AI Megafactory
Last week, Samsung confirmed it will supply a variety of advanced memory solutions—including HBM3e, HBM4, GDDR7, and SOCAMM2—along with foundry services for the AI Megafactory project with NVIDIA.
Samsung notedclose talks to provide HBM4, which pairs a 4nm logic base with sixth-generation 10nm-class DRAM, reaching speeds over 11Gbps—well above JEDEC’s 8Gbps standard and customer expectations.
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Summary: Samsung is rapidly advancing the delivery and certification of HBM4 memory samples to NVIDIA, targeting early-2026 validation and volume shipments in late 2026 to support NVIDIA’s AI Megafactory.