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Intel hires Micron's technology development chief to lead Intel Foundry manufacturing operations

Naga Chandrasekaran joins Intel as head of Intel Foundry's worldwide manufacturing operations.

Tom’s Hardware · Jul 26, 2024

Micron Launches 9550 PCIe Gen5 SSDs: 14 GB/s with Massive Endurance

Micron has introduced its Micron 9550-series SSDs, which it claims are the fastest enterprise drives in the industry. The Micron 9550 Pro and 9550 Max SSDs with a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface promise unbeatable performance amid enhanced endurance and power efficiency, which will be particularly beneficial for data centersMicron's 9550-series…

AnandTech · Jul 24, 2024

JEDEC Plans LPDDR6-Based CAMM, DDR5 MRDIMM Specifications

Following a relative lull in the desktop memory industry in the previous decade, the past few years have seen a flurry of new memory standards and form factors enter development. Joining the traditional DIMM/SO-DIMM form factors, we've seen the introduction of space-efficient DDR5 CAMM2s, their LPDDR5-based counterpart the LPCAMM2, and…

AnandTech · Jul 23, 2024

Crucial P310 NVMe SSD Unveiled: Micron's Play in the M.2 2230 Market

Hand-held gaming consoles based on notebook platforms (such as the Valve SteamDeck, ASUS ROG Ally, and the MSI Claw) are one of the fastest growing segments in the PC gaming market. The form-factor of such systems has created a demand for M.2 2230 NVMe SSDs. Almost all vendors have a…

AnandTech · Jul 17, 2024

Micron Expands Datacenter DRAM Portfolio with MR-DIMMs

The compute market has always been hungry for memory bandwidth, particularly for high-performance applications in servers and datacenters. In recent years, the explosion in core counts per socket has further accentuated this need. Despite progress in DDR speeds, the available bandwidth per core has unfortunately not seen a corresponding scaling.…

AnandTech · Jul 16, 2024

David vs Goliath: Desktop SLS Kickstarter Ends with Acquisition

Formlabs acquires startup Micronics and its Kickstarter SLS printer.

Tom’s Hardware · Jul 11, 2024

Samsung Joins The 60 TB SSD Club, Looking Forward To 120 TB Drives

Multiple companies offer high-capacity SSDs, but until recently, only one company offered high-performance 60 TB-class drives with a PCIe interface: Solidigm. As our colleagues from Blocks & Files discovered, Samsung quietly rolled out its BM1743 61.44 TB solid-state drive in mid-June and now envisions 120 TB-class SSDs based on the…

AnandTech · Jul 5, 2024

Micron expects GDDR7 will improve ray tracing and rasterization performance by more than 30%, compared to previous gen VRAM

Does 30% more memory bandwidth mean 30% more fps? Let's put it to the test.

PC Gamer · Jul 4, 2024

Sorry, gamers: memory prices could be on the way up, which means you'll pay more for that Nvidia RTX 5090

Memory prices could rise soon, which means you'll be paying more for that Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU.

TechRadar · Jul 1, 2024

Micron says GDDR7 will provide a 30% improvement in gaming — both ray tracing and rasterization

In a press release, Micron revealed that its GDDR7 will provide 30% greater frame rates than its older GDDR6 memory in ray tracing and rasterized video games.

Tom’s Hardware · Jul 1, 2024