Industrial Policy Is Alive and Well at the Democratic National Convention Speakers at the 2024 convention bragged about the Democratic Party's willingness to give public money to private companies. Reason · Aug 20, 2024
CXL Gathers Momentum at FMS 2024 The CXL consortium has had a regular presence at FMS (which rechristened itself from 'Flash Memory Summit' to the 'Future of Memory and Storage' this year). Back at FMS 2022, the company had announced v3.0 of the CXL specifications. This was followed by CXL 3.1's introduction at Supercomputing 2023. Having… AnandTech · Aug 19, 2024
DapuStor and Memblaze Target Global Expansion with State-of-the-Art Enterprise SSDs The growth in the enterprise SSD (eSSD) market has outpaced that of the client SSD market over the last few years. The requirements of AI servers for both training and inference has been the major impetus in this front. In addition to the usual vendors like Samsung, Solidigm, Micron, Kioxia,… AnandTech · Aug 15, 2024
Phison Enterprise SSDs at FMS 2024: Pascari Branding and Accelerating AI At FMS 2024, Phison devoted significant booth space to their enterprise / datacenter SSD and PCIe retimer solutions, in addition to their consumer products. As a controller / silicon vendor, Phison had historically been working with drive partners to bring their solutions to the market. On the enterprise side, their… AnandTech · Aug 15, 2024
5 'Strong Buy' Stocks That Just Reported Killer Earnings As the earnings season nears its close, here are five ‘Strong Buy’-rated stocks that delivered exceptional earnings results. Barchart · Aug 13, 2024
Northern Taiwan power outage causes small impact on Micron and Nanya fabs Micron and Nanya Technology factories have been affected by a minor power interruption. Tom’s Hardware · Aug 13, 2024
RTX 4070 infused with slower GDDR6 pictured — new variant features 20 Gbps VRAM with 5% less bandwidth Galax is purportedly preparing to launch an RTX 4070 with GDDR6 memory rather than GDDR6X. The new model will utilize 20Gbps modules, giving it 5% less bandwidth than GDDR6X-equipped RTX 4070 models. Tom’s Hardware · Aug 12, 2024
Kioxia Details BiCS 8 NAND at FMS 2024: 218 Layers With Superior Scaling Kioxia's booth at FMS 2024 was a busy one with multiple technology demonstrations keeping visitors occupied. A walk-through of the BiCS 8 manufacturing process was the first to grab my attention. Kioxia and Western Digital announced the sampling of BiCS 8 in March 2023. We had touched briefly upon its… AnandTech · Aug 12, 2024
Micron's game-changing budget DRAMless SSD could spell the end of low performance SATA drives — independent reviews show it trounces Samsung's 990 EVO on popular benchmarks Micron's DRAMless 2650 SSD performed well in benchmarking tests, trouncing Samsung's 990 EVO and others. TechRadar · Aug 10, 2024
Microchip Demonstrates Flashtec 5016 Enterprise SSD Controller Microchip recently announced the availability of their second PCIe Gen 5 enterprise SSD controller - the Flashtec 5016. Like the 4016, this is also a 16-channel controller, but there are some key updates: PCIe 5.0 lane organization: Operation in x4 or dual independent x2 / x2 mode in the 5016,… AnandTech · Aug 8, 2024
Western Digital Previews M.2 2280 PCIe 5.0 x4 NVMe Client SSDs: 15GBps at Under 7 Watts Western Digital's FMS 2024 demonstrations included a preview of their upcoming PCIe 5.0 x4 M.2 2280 NVMe SSDs for mobile workstations and consumer desktops. The Gen 5 client SSD market has been dominated by solutions based on Phison's E26 controller. The first generation products launched with slower NAND flash, while… AnandTech · Aug 8, 2024
Micron touts world's first PCIe Gen 6 drive with epic 26 GB/s speeds but it's not hitting your PC for years The PC doesn't support Gen 6 yet and won't for some time to come. PC Gamer · Aug 7, 2024
Western Digital Teases 128 TB Enterprise SSD: BiCS8 3D QLC for AI Workloads A week after Western Digital confirmed that it had begun sampling of its 64 TB SSDs for datacenters, the company has teased its next-generation product, a 128 TB solid-state drive at FMS 2024. For now, all we know about Western Digital's 128 TB SSD is that it uses the company's… AnandTech · Aug 7, 2024
Chinese companies are stockpiling HBM2E chips ahead of new U.S. export rules Baidu, Huawei, and Tencent are stockpiling Samsung's HBM2E memory to use with their own AI processors. Tom’s Hardware · Aug 6, 2024
AnandTech · Aug 6, 2024 Solidigm D7-PS1010 and D7-PS1030: PCIe 5.0 and 176L TLC Datacenter SSD Performance Play Solidigm's datacenter SSD lineup includes models targeting different performance, endurance, and cost tradeoffs. Last year, the company had introduced the D5-P5336 QLC drive as a low-cost high-capacity drive for read-heavy workloads, while also preparing the SLC-based D7-P5810 for extremely write-intensive workloads requiring high endurance. The D7-P5520 / D7-P5620 Gen 4…
Tom’s Hardware · Aug 6, 2024 Micron announces industry first PCIe Gen6 SSD, claims 26GB/s transfer speed Micron has announced the development of the industry's first PCIe Gen6 SSD. Claimed to be capable of 'sequential read bandwidths of over 26GB/s,' the new SSDs are being made available to data center operating partners.
Barchart · Aug 4, 2024 Grab This 'Strong Buy' Semiconductor Stock Now for 77% Upside Potential This top-rated semiconductor stock has room for double-digit gains, and could be an enticing pick for investors after the recent pullback.
TechRadar · Aug 1, 2024 Big and speedy: this 30.72TB behemoth is world's fastest enterprise SSD and obliterates Samsung's flagship 990 Pro champion Micron 9550 data center SSD comes in up to 30.72TB capacity and obliterates Samsung's flagship 990 Pro.
Barchart · Aug 1, 2024 Is Wall Street Bullish or Bearish on Micron Technology Stock? Micron Technology has outperformed many of its peers and the broader market over the past 52 weeks, and Wall Street analysts remain optimistic about the stock's prospects.
Barchart · Jul 31, 2024 What to Expect From Micron Technology's Next Quarterly Earnings Report Micron Technology is expected to announce its fourth-quarter earnings in September, and analysts expect a triple-digit earnings growth.
AnandTech · Jul 31, 2024 Micron Ships Denser & Faster 276 Layer TLC NAND, Arriving First In Micron 2650 Client SSDs Micron on Tuesday announced that the company has begun shipping its 9th Generation (G9) 276 layer TLC NAND. The next generation of NAND from the prolific memory maker, Micron's latest NAND is designed to further push the envelope on TLC NAND performance, offering significant density and performance improvements over its…
PC Gamer · Jul 30, 2024 GDDR6X VRAM is claimed to be in short supply and could lead to an RTX 4070 being launched with slower GDDR6 to meet the demand Which should be fine, as long as it's not too much slower. Or the same price.
Tom’s Hardware · Jul 30, 2024 SK hynix announces its GDDR7 memory touting 60% faster speeds, 50% improved power efficiency SK hynix just introduced its GDDR7 graphics memory chips intended for high-performance computing, AI processing, and more. It offers significantly improved speed and power efficiency, making it suitable for the next-generation GPUs slated to arrive late 2024 and early 2025.
Tom’s Hardware · Jul 29, 2024 Alleged GDDR6X shortage could briefly hinder Nvidia gaming GPU supply starting August — affected models include RTX 4070 through RTX 4090 A rumor suggests RTX 4070 through RTX 4090 GPUs will face temporary supply shortages due to a quality control failure on a batch of Micron GDDR6X memory modules.
Fortune · Jul 27, 2024 How Singapore drives almost a third of U.S. chipmaker Micron's revenue Almost all of Micron Technology’s NAND memory, which contributed 30% of revenue last quarter, is made in its facilities in Singapore.