AMD to Unveil 'Major' New Radeon Products Next Week at Gamescom
Earlier this month, AMD said that it would refresh its lineup of Radeon RX graphics cards for gamers this quarter, and apparently, the new products are set to be...
27 by Anton Shilov on 8/17/2023Intel Calls Off Tower Acquisition, Forced to Focus Solely on Leading-Edge Nodes
Intel Corp. will not proceed with its $5.4 billion deal to acquire Tower Semiconductor foundry due to a lack of regulatory approval from China, the two companies announced on...
17 by Anton Shilov on 8/17/2023AI Server Market to Reach $150 Billion by 2027 - Foxconn
Demand for generative AI services is skyrocketing and driving the need for AI servers and machines that are substantially different from traditional servers. The category is growing so quickly...
4 by Anton Shilov on 8/16/2023OWC Teams Up with Frore for 32TB and 64TB SSD Devices
OWC and Frore Systems demonstrated silent 32 TB and 64 TB solid-state storage devices that use Frore's AirJet Mini coolers at the Flash Memory Summit 2023. Both devices promise...
12 by Anton Shilov on 8/15/2023Intel and Synopsys Ink Deal to Develop IP for Intel's 3 and 18A Nodes
Intel and Synopsys this week signed an agreement under which Synopsys will develop a portfolio of various IP offerings for Intel 3 and 18A fabrication technologies for Intel Foundry...
1 by Anton Shilov on 8/15/2023Samsung, MemVerge, and H3 Build 2TB CXL Memory Pool
Samsung, MemVerge, H3 Platform, and XConn have jointly unveiled their 2 TB Pooled CXL Memory System at the Flash Memory Summit. The device can be connected to up to...
4 by Anton Shilov on 8/14/2023SK Hynix Launches 24GB LPDDR5X-8500 Stacks for Smartphones, PCs, and HPC
On Friday, SK Hynix said it had started mass production of 24 GB LPDDR5X memory stacks that can be used for ultra-high-end smartphones and PCs. The company's LPDDR5X-8500 devices...
10 by Anton Shilov on 8/11/2023Samsung Teases 256 TB SSD: 3D QLC NAND at Its Best
Samsung teased the industry's first 256 TB solid-state drive at the Flash Memory Summit 2023. The new drive features unprecedented storage density and is aimed primarily at hyper-scale data...
27 by Anton Shilov on 8/11/2023Memory Makers on Track to Double HBM Output in 2023
TrendForce projects a remarkable 105% increase in annual bit shipments of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) this year. This boost comes in response to soaring demands from AI and high-performance computing...
9 by Anton Shilov on 8/9/2023Silicon Motion Readies PCIe Gen5 SSD Platform with 3.5W Power Consumption [UPDATED]
UPDATE 8/24: As it turns out, the 3.5W figure referes to power consumption of the controller alone, not the whole SSD. The story has been updated accordingly. We also...
19 by Anton Shilov on 8/9/2023SK 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 8/3/2023