DRAM
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, it began to optimize its spending, which pushed production at these fabrication facilities. This week, the company outlined more precise timeframes for when its fabs in Idaho and New York will start operations: this will happen from calendar 2026 to calendar 2029. "These fab construction investments are necessary to support supply growth for the latter half of this decade," a statement by Micron in its Q3 FY2024 financial results report reads. "This Idaho fab will not contribute to meaningful bit supply until fiscal 2027 and the New York construction capex is not expected to contribute to...
Samsung's $15 Billion R&D Complex to Overcome Limits of Semiconductor Scaling
Samsung on Friday broke ground for a new semiconductor research and development complex which will design new fabrication processes for memory and logic, as well as conduct fundamental research...
26 by Anton Shilov on 8/19/2022
Crucial Ballistix Memory Goes End-of-Life, Micron Realigns its DRAM Strategy
Underscoring the fast-paced nature of the computer hardware market, Micron this week has decided to discontinue all of its current Crucial Ballistix memory products. The move to end-of-life (EOL...
13 by Gavin Bonshor on 2/17/2022
ASUS Demonstrates DDR5 to DDR4 Converter Card
One of the key issues with purchasing a modern Alder Lake system today is the cost of the memory, especially when an enthusiast wants to use DDR5. Due to...
31 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/30/2021
SK Hynix to Manufacture 48 GiB and 96 GiB DDR5 Modules
Today SK Hynix is announcing the sampling of its next generation DDR5 memory. The headline is the commercialization of a new 24 gigabit die, offering 50% more capacity than...
22 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/14/2021
Samsung Announces First LPDDR5X at 8.5Gbps
After the publication of the LPDDR5X memory standard earlier this summer, Samsung has now been the first vendor to announce new modules based on the new technology. The LPDDR5X standard...
19 by Andrei Frumusanu on 11/9/2021
SK Hynix Announces Its First HBM3 Memory: 24GB Stacks, Clocked at up to 6.4Gbps
Though the formal specification has yet to be ratified by JEDEC, the memory industry as a whole is already gearing up for the upcoming launch of the next generation...
19 by Ryan Smith on 10/20/2021
Samsung Teases 512 GB DDR5-7200 Modules
This week as part of the annual Hot Chips semiconductor conference, Samsung’s memory division has presented a poster/slides on a project it is currently working on with impressive end-point...
27 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/22/2021
JEDEC Publishes LPDDR5X Standard at up to 8533 Mbps
JEDEC and the JC-42.6 Subcommittee for Low Power Memories has announced the publication of the new JESD209-5B standard which now includes improvements to LPDDR5, as well as an extension...
17 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/29/2021
Computex 2021: G.Skill Trident Z Royal Elite With DDR4-4000 CL14, Tight Latencies
During Computex 2021, G.Skill has announced a couple of new memory kits featuring its regal-looking Trident Z Royal Elite heatsinks. Available with super tight primary latencies of CL14, the...
29 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/8/2021
Computex 2021: TeamGroup Announces its First DDR5-4800 Memory Module
Back in December 2020, TeamGroup announced its intentions for the switch to DDR5 memory on future platforms. During Computex 2021, TeamGroup claims it has 'successfully taken the lead over...
12 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/7/2021
After Selling HyperX to HP, Kingston Resurrects FURY Brand for DRAM and SSDs
Last week, we reported that the highly anticipated acquisition of Kingston's HyperX gaming brand by HP was completed for the sum of $325 million. As we noted, the terms...
9 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/7/2021
Using a PCIe Slot to Install DRAM: New Samsung CXL.mem Expansion Module
In the computing industry, we’ve lived with PCIe as a standard for a long time. It is used to add any additional features to a system: graphics, storage, USB...
47 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/11/2021
SK Hynix to Build $106 Billion Fab Cluster: 800,000 Wafer Starts a Month
Capping off a busy week for fab-related news, South Korea authorities this week gave SK Hynix a green light to build a new, 120 trillion won ($106.35 billion) fab...
41 by Anton Shilov on 4/2/2021
Intel’s DPG Launch Event April 6th: Early Look at 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake)
Today Intel has announced that it will be holding a launch event on April 6th for the new vision of its Data Platform Group. This event is set to...
29 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/19/2021
TeamGroup Announces Intentions for DDR5, ELITE DDR5-5200 in 2021
Earlier in the year, we learned that a lot of DDR5 manufacturing is already in the pipeline, with Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron all making announcements this year regarding...
19 by Gavin Bonshor on 12/1/2020
Insights into DDR5 Sub-timings and Latencies
Today we posted a news article about SK hynix’s new DDR5 memory modules for customers – 64 GB registered modules running at DDR5-4800, aimed at the preview systems that...
87 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/6/2020
Micron Spills on GDDR6X: PAM4 Signaling For Higher Rates, Coming to NVIDIA’s RTX 3090
It would seem that Micron this morning has accidentally spilled the beans on the future of graphics card memory technologies – and outed one of NVIDIA’s next-generation RTX video...
68 by Ryan Smith on 8/20/2020
DDR5 Memory Specification Released: Setting the Stage for DDR5-6400 And Beyond
Marking an important milestone in computer memory development, today the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association is releasing the final specification for its next mainstream memory standard, DDR5 SDRAM. The...
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PNY Unveils XLR8 Gaming Epic-X RGB DDR4-3200 Memory
Perhaps more widely known for its array of NVIDIA based graphics cards, American based company PNY has announced its latest product, the XLR8 Gaming Epic-X RGB DDR4 memory. Built...
27 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/14/2020
SK Hynix: HBM2E Memory Now in Mass Production
Just shy of a year ago, SK Hynix threw their hat into the ring, as it were, by becoming the second company to announce memory based on the HBM2E...
38 by Ryan Smith on 7/2/2020
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