Altera, Micron demonstrate HMC interoperability

"As one of the founding developers of the HMC Consortium, Altera's support for, and involvement with, HMC has been invaluable," said Brian Shirley, Micron's vice president of dram solutions. "The combination of Altera fpgas with Micron's HMC solution will help customers leverage the technology's performance and efficiency in a wide range of next generation networking and computing applications." According to Altera, HMC compatibility will feature in its Generation 10 portfolio, including Stratix 10 and Arria 10 devices. "By demonstrating Stratix V and HMC working together, we are enabling our customers to prepare for production deployment in Altera's Generation 10 devices, knowing they will have proven HMC support," said Danny Biran, Altera's senior vice president of marketing and corporate strategy. HMC is said to deliver up to 15 times the bandwidth of a DDR3 module, while using 70% less energy and occupying 90% less space than existing technologies.