SK Hynix Shows Off 321-Layer 3D TLC NAND Device
SK Hynix showcased its 321-layer TLC NAND memory at the Flash Memory Summit 2023. The South Korean company is the first NAND maker to publicly demonstrate 3D NAND with...
11 by Anton Shilov on 8/9/2023Micron's CZ120 CXL Memory Expansion Modules Unveiled: 128GB and 256GB
This week, Micron announced the sample availability of its first CXL 2.0 memory expansion modules for servers that promise easy and cheap DRAM subsystem expansions. Modern server platforms from...
7 by Anton Shilov on 8/9/2023NVIDIA Completes ProViz Ada Lovelace Lineup with Three New Graphics Cards
When NVIDIA began to roll out their Ada Lovelace architecture to the workstation market, the company introduced its new flagship RTX 6000 Ada graphics card meant to offer the...
2 by Anton Shilov on 8/8/2023NVIDIA Unveils Updated GH200 'Grace Hopper' Superchip with HBM3e Memory, Shipping in Q2'2024
At SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles, NVIDIA unveiled a new variant of their GH200' superchip,' which is set to be the world's first GPU chip to be equipped with HBM3e...
4 by Gavin Bonshor on 8/8/2023TSMC Establishes Joint Venture to Build 12nm/16nm Fab in Europe
TSMC on Tuesday announced plans to establish a European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC) joint venture with its partners Bosch, Infineon, and NXP to build a fab near Dresden, Germany...
10 by Anton Shilov on 8/8/2023Colorful Reveals Mini-ITX GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
Colorful has quietly introduced GeForce RTX 4060 Ti graphics cards in Mini-ITX form-factor that combine compact dimensions and performance of Nvidia's latest Ada Lovelace GPUs. In fact, with the...
2 by Anton Shilov on 8/8/2023Kioxia's CD8P SSD Unveiled: Up to 30.72 TB, PCI 5.0 x4 Interface
Hyperscale data centers have very specific requirements for different tiers of storage devices: some tiers need maximum performance, and others demand maximum storage density. Kioxia's new CD8P drives for...
11 by Anton Shilov on 8/7/2023Gigabyte Launches Low-Profile GeForce RTX 4060 Graphics Card
The relatively low power consumption of Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4060 graphics processor allows graphics card makers to experiment with the form factors of their products. We have already seen...
10 by Anton Shilov on 8/7/2023Cloud Provider Gets $2.3 Billion Debt Using NVIDIA's H100 as Collateral
CoreWeave, an NVIDIA-backed cloud service provider specializing in GPU-accelerated services, has secured a debt facility worth $2.3 billion using NVIDIA's H100-based hardware as collateral. The company intends to use...
18 by Anton Shilov on 8/4/2023AMD to Introduce New Enthusiast-Class Graphics Cards This Quarter
As part of their quarterly earnings call this week, AMD revealed that the company is getting ready to launch new enthusiast-class Radeon RX 7000-series graphics cards in the coming...
30 by Anton Shilov on 8/3/2023AMD Announces Radeon Pro W7600 & W7500: Pro RDNA 3 For The Mid-Range
As AMD continues to launch their full graphics product stacks based on their latest RDNA 3 architecture GPUs, the company is now preparing their next wave of professional cards...
5 by Ryan Smith on 8/3/2023Intel Plans Massive Expansion in Oregon: D1X and D1A to Be Upgraded
Intel has filed a permit application that outlines significant expansion plans for its campus near Hillsboro, Oregon. According to filings submitted to state regulators, the tech giant's ambitious proposals...
4 by Anton Shilov on 8/2/2023PCI-SIG Forms Optical Workgroup - Lighting The Way To PCIe's Future
The PCI-Express interconnect standard may be going through some major changes in the coming years, based on a new announcement from the group responsible for the standard. The PCI-SIG...
16 by Ryan Smith on 8/2/2023Intel Quietly Launches New Arc GPUs for Laptops
Intel has quietly released two new Arc Alchemist-series graphics processors for laptops. The new Arc A530M and Arc A570M target mid-range notebooks designed for light gaming. Perhaps the most...
3 by Anton Shilov on 8/2/2023China Imposes New Export Restrictions on Gallium and Germanium
China this week formally imposed new export regulations on gallium and germanium, as well as materials incorporating them. This move is broadly seen as a retaliatory act for the...
6 by Anton Shilov on 8/2/2023Western Digital Preps 28 TB UltraSMR Hard Drive
Western Digital is gearing up to start sampling of its 28 TB nearline hard drive for hyperscalers. The new HDD will use the company's energy-assisted perpendicular magnetic recording (ePMR...
19 by Anton Shilov on 8/1/2023TeamGroup Unveils JEDEC-Spec DDR5-6400 Memory Kits: Faster 1.1V DDR5 On The Way For Future CPUs
While DDR5 memory has been out and in use for a couple of years now, so far we haven't seen the memory reach its full potential – at least...
5 by Anton Shilov on 7/31/2023Dozens of Companies Adopt TSMC's 3nm Process Technology
Designing chips for modern, leading-edge manufacturing technologies is an expensive endeavor. Still, dozens of companies have already adopted TSMCs N3 and N3E (3 nm-class) fabrication processes, according to disclosures...
9 by Anton Shilov on 7/28/2023Samsung Begins to Produce Third 3nm Chip Amid Massive Losses On DRAM & NAND
Samsung this week reported their financial results for the second quarter of 2023, closing the book on an especially bleak quarter of the year with a massive $3.4 billion...
14 by Anton Shilov on 7/28/2023Seagate Ships First Commercial HAMR Hard Drives
Seagate announced this week that it had begun the first commercial revenue shipments of its next-generation HAMR hard drives, which are being shipped out as part of Seagate's latest...
3 by Anton Shilov on 7/28/2023