MediaTek to Add NVIDIA G-Sync Support to Monitor Scalers, Make G-Sync Displays More Accessible

NVIDIA on Tuesday said that future monitor scalers from MediaTek will support its G-Sync technologies. NVIDIA is partnering with MediaTek to integrate its full range of G-Sync technologies into...

16 by Anton Shilov on 8/20/2024

Fadu's FC5161 SSD Controller Breaks Cover in Western Digital's PCIe Gen5 Enterprise Drives

When Western Digital introduced its Ultrastar DC SN861 SSDs earlier this year, the company did not disclose which controller it used for these drives, which made many observers presume...

2 by Anton Shilov on 8/15/2024

Intel Sells Its Arm Shares, Reduces Stakes in Other Companies

Intel has divested its entire stake in Arm Holdings during the second quarter, raising approximately $147 million. Alongside this, Intel sold its stake in cybersecurity firm ZeroFox and reduced...

12 by Anton Shilov on 8/14/2024

G.Skill Intros Low Latency DDR5 Memory Modules: CL30 at 6400 MT/s

G.Skill on Tuesday introduced its ultra-low-latency DDR5-6400 memory modules that feature a CAS latency of 30 clocks, which appears to be the industry's most aggressive timings yet for DDR5-6400...

2 by Anton Shilov on 8/13/2024

Rapidus Wants to Offer Fully Automated Packaging for 2nm Fab to Cut Chip Lead Times

One of the core challenges that Rapidus will face when it kicks off volume production of chips on its 2nm-class process technology in 2027 is lining up customers. With...

4 by Anton Shilov on 8/13/2024

U.S. Signs $1.5B in CHIPS Act Agreements With Amkor and SKhynix for Chip Packaging Plants

Under the CHIPS & Science Act, the U.S. government provided tens of billions of dollars in grants and loans to the world's leading maker of chips, such as Intel...

0 by Anton Shilov on 8/9/2024

Imec Successfully Demonstrates High-NA Lithography for Logic and DRAM Patterning for First Time

Imec and ASML have announced that the two companies have printed the first logic and DRAM patterns using ASML's experimental Twinscan EXE:5000 EUV lithography tool, the industry's first High-NA...

5 by Anton Shilov on 8/8/2024

AMD Launches New Ryzen & Radeon Gaming Bundle: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and Unknown 9: Awakening

AMD has made itself quite a reputation with its bundling campaigns over the years, and every new season we can be sure that the company will be giving away...

0 by Anton Shilov on 8/7/2024

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...

5 by Ganesh T S & Anton Shilov on 8/7/2024

Samsung Shrinks LPDDR5X Chips by 9%, Now Just 0.65mm Thick

Samsung is announcing today that it has begun mass production of 12 GB and 16 GB LPDDR5X modules in the industry's thinnest package. Samsung's shrunken memory packages measure approximately...

7 by Anton Shilov on 8/5/2024

Western Digital: We Are Sampling 32TB SMR Hard Drives

In an unexpected announcement during their quarterly earnings call this week, Western Digital revealed that it has begun sampling an upcoming 32TB hard drive. The nearline HDD is aimed...

3 by Anton Shilov on 8/2/2024

Best Buy Briefly Lists AMD's Ryzen 9000 CPUs: From $279 to $599

Although AMD delayed launch of its Ryzen 9000-series processors based on the Zen 5 microarchitecture from July 31, to early and mid-August, the company's partner (and major US retailer...

9 by Anton Shilov on 7/31/2024

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...

4 by Anton Shilov on 7/31/2024

ASRock Launches Passively Cooled Radeon RX 7900 XTX & XT Cards for Servers

As sales of GPU-based AI accelerators remain as strong as ever, the immense demand for these cards has led to some server builders going off the beaten path in...

8 by Anton Shilov on 7/26/2024

SK hynix to Enter 60 TB SSD Club Next Quarter

SK hynix this week reported its financial results for the second quarter, as well as offering a glimpse at its plans for the coming quarters. Notably among the company's...

7 by Anton Shilov on 7/25/2024

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...

11 by Anton Shilov on 7/24/2024

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...

19 by Anton Shilov on 7/23/2024

Tenstorrent 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 7/19/2024

TSMCs 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 7/18/2024

Samsung 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 7/17/2024

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