As The Demand for HBM Explodes, SK Hynix is Expected to Benefit
The demand for high bandwidth memory is set to explode in the coming quarters and years due to the broader adoption of artificial intelligence in general and generative AI...
8 by on 4/18/2023
Zotac’s Zbox Edge MI351 Packs Alder Lake-N and Offers Upgradeability
Introduced back at CES 2023, Intel’s Alder Lake-N platform is the company's newest and latest budget platform for entry-level PCs. With the hardware now shipping, Zotac is among the...
16 by on 4/14/2023
Intel to Exit Prebuilt Server Business, Sells Data Center Solutions Group to MiTAC
While Intel is best known in the server space for their processors, networking gear, and other components, the company also has a small but respected prebuilt server system business...
8 by on 4/12/2023
Samsung Becomes Latest Memory Fab to Cut Production Amidst Post-Pandemic Slump
Following an ongoing slump in demand that has impacted the entire memory industry over the last several months, Samsung this week has become the latest memory foundry to announce...
11 by on 4/7/2023
Asus Preps ROG Ally: A Portable Windows Game Console with Custom Zen 4 + RDNA 3 APU
Asus has begun teasing its own portable game console, the ROG Ally, which the company is positioning as a high-end offering for the handheld PC gaming market. With its...
18 by on 4/5/2023
Microsoft Launches Thunderbolt 4 Surface Dock - Sans Surface Connect Port
Microsoft has introduced a new docking station for its latest Surface devices equipped with Thunderbolt 4 ports. The Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock has eight ports and provides a comprehensive...
3 by on 4/5/2023
AMD Quietly Launches A620 Platform: Sub $100 AM5 Motherboards
AMD has introduced its entry-level A620 platform for AM5 processors. The new platform is designed to power inexpensive PCs that use AMD's CPUs in AM5 packaging based on the...
28 by on 4/4/2023
Kioxia and Western Digital Debut 218-Layer 3D NAND: 1Tb TLC with 3.2 GT/s IO Speed
Kioxia and Western Digital formally introduced their 8th Generation BiCS 3D NAND memory with 218 active layers. The new storage device offers a 1Tb capacity in 3D TLC mode...
34 by on 3/31/2023
Synopsys Intros AI-Powered EDA Suite to Accelerate Chip Design and Cut Costs
Synopsys has introduced the industry's first full-stack AI-powered suite of electronic design automation tools that covers all stages of chip design, from architecture to design and implementation to manufacturing...
12 by on 3/30/2023
JOLED Files for Bankruptcy: Set to Transfer OLED IP to JDI and Close Down Two Plants
JOLED, a Japan-based producer of OLED panels and displays, said it had applied for bankruptcy protection at the Tokyo District Court, citing total liabilities of ¥33.7 billion ($257 million)...
18 by on 3/28/2023
NVIDIA's cuLitho to Speed Up Computational Lithography for 2nm and Beyond
Production of chips using leading-edge process technologies requires more compute power than ever. To address requirements of 2nm nodes and beyond, NVIDIA is rolling out its cuLitho software library...
31 by on 3/27/2023
Out With Organic, In With Glass? DNP Unveils Glass Core Substrate Tech For Chips
As the chip industry develops more sophisticated processors with higher heat dissipation requirements, some firms have moved on to chiplet-based designs. This not-so-gradual shift has resulted in chip packaging...
17 by on 3/23/2023
NAND Flash Prices Have Dropped Rapidly In Recent Quarters - And So Have SSD Prices
Softened demand for PCs and smartphones coupled with NAND memory bits oversupply has sent prices of 3D NAND memory into a dive in recent quarters. In Q4, global NAND...
20 by on 3/20/2023
Inflation Drives Up Fab Costs for Intel and Samsung by Billions of Dollars
To address future demand for semiconductors amid severe chip shortages of 2020 – 2022, all leading chipmakers announced plans to build new fabs and even disclosed their estimated costs...
15 by on 3/16/2023
Apex Storage X21 Carries 21 M.2 SSDs: 168 TB of NAND at up to 31 GB/second
Riser cards carrying multiple M.2-2280 SSDs are nothing new, but Apex Storage went above and beyond with its new X21 board, which can carry up to 21 M.2 drives...
9 by on 3/15/2023
Samsung Seeks to Make South Korea No. 1 Chipmaker with $230B Investment Over 20 Years
Samsung on Wednesday unveiled their plan to invest $230 billion over the next 20 years in a new semiconductor production mega cluster in South Korea. The country's government believes...
22 by on 3/15/2023
Dropbox Shares Preparations for HAMR Hard Drives, Focusing On Reducing Drive Vibrations
Dropbox was among the first large cloud service providers (CSPs) providers to deploy hard drives that use shingled magnetic recording (SMR) to increase storage density of its datacenters. As...
4 by on 3/13/2023
Fujitsu Preps Monaka Datacenter CPU to Succeed A64FX: Greater Efficiency and More Features
Fujitsu has revealed that the company is prepping the successor for its A64FX processor for high-performance computing. The company's second-generation Arm-based server CPU is slated to offer considerably higher...
21 by on 3/10/2023
AMD AM5 Motherboards Finally Reach $125 Mark with ASRock's mATX B650M-HDV/M.2
When AMD introduced its Ryzen 7000-series processors and AM5 platform last September, it said that over time motherboards for the new CPUs would get to mainstream price points. Yet...
23 by on 3/9/2023
Lenovo Teams Up with Aston Martin for New ThinkStations: Up to 120 Cores, 4 Graphics Cards
Lenovo has introduced its all-new ThinkStation machines designed for performance-hungry professionals. The new ThinkStation P-series lineup consists of four machines based on up to two Intel Sapphire Rapids processors...
25 by on 3/9/2023
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