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...
11 by Anton Shilov on 7/24/2024JEDEC 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...
19 by Anton Shilov on 7/23/2024HighPoint Updates NVMe RAID Cards for PCIe 5.0: 50 GBps+ Direct-Attached SSD Storage
HighPoint Technologies has updated their NVMe switch and RAID solutions with PCIe 5.0, and supporting up to eight NVMe drives. The new HighPoint Rocket 1600 (switch add-in card) and...
0 by Ganesh T S on 7/23/2024Tenstorrent Launches Wormhole AI Processors: 466 FP8 TFLOPS at 300W
Tenstorrent has unveiled its next-generation Wormhole processor for AI workloads that promises to offer decent performance at a low price. The company currently offers two add-on PCIe cards carrying...
20 by Anton Shilov on 7/19/2024TSMCs Q2'24 Results: Best Quarter Ever as HPC Revenue Share Exceeds 52% on AI Demand
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. this week said its revenue for the second quarter 2024 reached $20.82 billion, making it the company's best quarter (at least in dollars) to date...
1 by Anton Shilov on 7/18/2024Crucial 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...
6 by Ganesh T S on 7/17/2024Samsung Validates LPDDR5X Running at 10.7 GT/sec with MediaTek's Dimensity 9400 SoC
Samsung has successfully validated its new LPDDR5X-10700 memory with MediaTek's upcoming Dimensity platform. At present, 10.7 GT/s is the highest performing speed grade of LPDDR5X DRAM slated to be...
0 by Anton Shilov on 7/17/2024Western Digital Adds 8TB Model to Popular High-End SN850X SSD Drive Family
Western Digital has quietly introduced an 8 TB version of its high-end SN850X SSD, doubling the top capacity of the well-regarded drive family. The new drive offers performance on...
19 by Anton Shilov on 7/16/2024Micron 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...
5 by Ganesh T S on 7/16/2024Troubled AI Processor Developer Graphcore Finds a Buyer: SoftBank
After months of searching for a buyer, troubled U.K.-based AI processor designer Graphcore said on Friday that it has been acquired by SoftBank. The company will operate as a...
7 by Anton Shilov on 7/12/2024Applied Materials' New Deposition Tool Enables Copper Wires to Be Used for 2nm and Beyond
Although the pace of Moore's Law has undeniably slackened in the last decade, transistor density is still increasing with every new process technology. But there is a challenge with...
7 by Anton Shilov on 7/12/2024Samsung 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...
19 by Anton Shilov on 7/5/2024Kioxia's High-Performance 3D QLC NAND Enables High-End High-Capacity SSDs
This week, Kioxia introduced its new 3D QLC NAND devices aimed at high-performance, high-capacity drives that could redefine what we typically expect from QLC-based SSDs. The components are 1...
6 by Anton Shilov on 7/5/2024Noctua Launches New Flagship Cooler: NH-D15 G2 with LGA1851 CPUs Support
On Tuesday, Noctua introduced its second-generation NH-D15 cooler, which offers refined performance and formally supports Intel's next-generation Arrow Lake-S processors in LGA1851 packaging. Alongside its NH-D15 G2 CPU cooler...
27 by Anton Shilov on 7/3/2024SK hynix Wraps up Dev Work on High-End PCB01 PCIe 5.0 SSD for OEMs, Launching Later This Year
SK hynix early in Friday announced that the company has finished the development of it's PCB01 PCIe Gen5 SSD, the company's forthcoming high-end SSD for OEMs. Based on the...
8 by Anton Shilov on 6/29/2024Micron: U.S. Fabs Will Start Operating in 2026 - 2029
When Micron announced plans to build two new fabs in the U.S. in 2022, the company vaguely said both would come online by the decade's end. Then, in 2023...
2 by Anton Shilov on 6/27/2024Frore Unveils Waterproof AirJet Mini Sport for Smartphones
Over the past couple of years, Frore Systems has demonstrated several ways that its AirJet solid-state active cooling systems can be used to improve cooling in fanless devices like...
16 by Anton Shilov on 6/26/2024NVIDIA's AD102 GPU Pops Up in MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super Cards
As GPU families enter the later part of their lifecycles, we often see chip manufacturers start to offload stockpiles of salvaged chips that, for one reason or another, didn't...
10 by Anton Shilov on 6/26/2024Two Is Better Than One: LG Starts Production of 13-inch Tandem OLED Display for Laptops
OLED panels have a number of advantages, including deep blacks, fast response times, and energy efficiency; most of these stemming from the fact that they do not need backlighting...
14 by Anton Shilov on 6/25/2024Western Digital Rolls Out Updated Budget WD Blue SN5000 SSDs, Adds 4TB Model
Western Digital expanded its WD Blue NVMe family of budget SSDs this week with the introduction of the the WD Blue SN5000 series, an updated lineup of SSDs that...
16 by Anton Shilov on 6/20/2024