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Nick Evanson

It's going to be raining dollars over at Samsung: A stamp of approval by Nvidia, plus an incoming price hike for DRAM chips, has lifted shares out of the doldrums

A picture of Samsung's Austin, Texas facility.

Even though it's one of the largest manufacturers of memory and flash storage chips in the world, Samsung hasn't been enjoying much success in the stock market in recent times. However, two separate reports might provide the reason why the South Korean semiconductor firm's fortunes are suddenly looking a whole lot rosier.

The first is from The Korea Economic Daily (via Bloomberg), which claims that Samsung's HBM3E RAM chips have finally passed Nvidia's qualification tests for use in its AI mega-processors. High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) is a type of RAM where multiple memory dies are stacked together to create a single module that can sustain a huge amount of data traffic per second.

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