Memory
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 Starts Production of 8 Gb DDR4-3600 ICs Using 2nd Gen 10nm-Class Tech
Samsung late on Wednesday said that it had initiated mass production of DDR4 memory chips using its second generation '10 nm-class' fabrication process. The new manufacturing technology shrinks die...
24 by Anton Shilov on 12/20/2017
Corsair Launches Vengeance 32 GB Quad-Channel DDR4-4000 SO-DIMM Kit for $595
Corsair on Wednesday introduced its new quad-channel 32 GB DDR4-4000 SO-DIMM kit designed specifically for ASRock’s X299E-ITX/ac platform and Intel’s latest Core i7/Core i9 processors. The kit hits the...
12 by Anton Shilov on 12/16/2017
Mega Memory: Crucial Ships 128 GB DDR4-2666 Modules for Servers at $3999 per Unit
Crucial has started shipments of its fastest and highest density server-class memory modules to date. Crucial’s 128 GB DDR4-2666 LRDIMMs are compatible with the latest memory-dense servers. These modules...
28 by Anton Shilov on 12/2/2017
G.Skill Shrinks Latencies of DDR4-4000+ Kits for Coffee Lake: DDR4-4266 CL17 Announced
G.Skill has announced a new series of high-end 16 and 32 GB DDR4 kits for Intel’s Coffee Lake processors. Following in the footsteps of other vendors who have announced...
15 by Anton Shilov on 11/27/2017
Corsair Builds 32 GB DDR4-4333 Kit, Only for Pre-Binned Coffee Lake CPUs
Corsair recently revealed a new 32 GB memory kit rated to run at DDR4-4333. The product consists of four modules and is the fastest set of DIMMs featuring such...
7 by Anton Shilov on 11/16/2017
Samsung Pre-Announces 16 Gbps GDDR6 Chips for Next-Gen Graphics Cards
In a surprisingly early revelation, Samsung has confirmed their plans to produce GDDR6 memory. The announcement was made as a part of Samsung’s pre-CES marketing campaign and does not...
21 by Anton Shilov on 11/14/2017
Micron Announces 32GB DDR4 NVDIMM-N Modules
Micron is announcing today their next generation of NVDIMM-N modules combining DDR4 DRAM with NAND flash memory to support persistent memory usage models. The new 32GB modules double the...
48 by Billy Tallis on 11/13/2017
RGB Fan for Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR4 Launched: $70 MSRP
Corsair has introduced a new fan for its top-of-the-range Dominator Platinum memory modules that not only adds additional airflow to the memory but also adds additional RGB LEDs. The...
15 by Anton Shilov on 11/3/2017
G.Skill Announces DDR4 SO-DIMM Kits up to DDR4-3800: Ripjaws for SFF
G.Skill has announced its new family of Ripjaws DDR4 SO-DIMM kits designed specifically for Intel’s Core X processors. The current number of consumer motherboards supporting SO-DIMMs is limited: only...
7 by Anton Shilov on 10/23/2017
G.Skill Launches Lineup of Trident Z Kits for Coffee Lake: DDR4 at 3733 - 4600 MT/s
G.Skill has launched a new series of memory module kits optimized for Intel’s new 8th Generation Core processors. The new DIMMs belong to G.Skill’s Trident Z and Trident Z...
7 by Anton Shilov on 10/18/2017
Corsair Weds RGB Lighting and White Heat Spreaders in Vengeance RGB White DDR4 DIMMs
Corsair has once again expanded its lineup of Vengeance RGB memory modules, this time with a new series of white DIMMs that incorporate RGB lighting. Dubeed the Vengeance RGB...
35 by Anton Shilov on 9/30/2017
Memory Scaling on Ryzen 7 with Team Group's Night Hawk RGB
A large number of column inches have been put towards describing and explaining AMD's new underlying scalable interconnect: the Infinity Fabric. A superset of HyperTransport, this interconnect is designed...
65 by Ian Cutress & Gavin Bonshor on 9/27/2017
GSkill Announces New AMD Compatible Trident Z RGB Kits
With both AMD Ryzen and Threadripper platforms continuing to mature, we’ve seen an increase in the two platform’s ability to handle higher capacity and faster RAM and be stable...
13 by Joe Shields on 9/22/2017
Corsair Announces 16GB DDR4-4600 Vengeance LPX DRAM Kits
Corsair on Thursday announced two fresh Vengeance LPX memory kits that set new performance records for the product family. The new dual-channel memory kits are intended for Intel’s Kaby...
16 by Anton Shilov on 9/15/2017
G.Skill Ups the Ante on Memory Speed and Voltage: 16 GB DDR4-4600 1.5v Kit for Kaby Lake-X
G.Skill on Friday introduced its fastest dual-channel memory kit designed specifically for Intel’s Kaby Lake-X processors and Intel’s X299 HEDT platforms. The new Trident Z DDR4-4600 DIMMs not only...
14 by Anton Shilov on 9/8/2017
Longsys Acquires Lexar Brand from Micron
Longsys on Thursday announced that it has acquired the Lexar brand name from Micron. The China-based supplier of NAND flash memory-based products will use the trademark to sell Lexar’s...
5 by Anton Shilov on 9/1/2017
Samsung & SK Hynix Graphics Memory Prices Increase Over 30% In August
In the midst of a global DRAM shortage, Digitimes reports that the market prices for graphics memory from Samsung and SK Hynix have increased by over 30% for August...
55 by Nate Oh on 8/16/2017
Geil Announces EVO Spear Series DRAM: Up to DDR4-3466
Geil recently announced the availability of its new EVO Spear series of memory, with kits labeled specifically for either Intel and AMD Ryzen based systems. Geil states the EVO...
6 by Joe Shields on 8/15/2017
G.Skill Unwraps Flare X 32 GB and 128 GB DDR4 Kits for AMD Threadripper: Up to 3600 MT/s
G.Skill has announced its lineup of DDR4 memory kits compatible with AMD’s new Ryzen Threadripper CPUs. The Flare X quad-channel kits are offered in 32 GB and 128 GB...
24 by Anton Shilov on 8/11/2017
SK Hynix: Customers Willing to Pay 2.5 Times More for HBM2 Memory
SK Hynix was the first DRAM manufacturer to start producing HBM Gen 1 memory in high volume back in 2015. However, the company is somewhat behind its rival Samsung...
23 by Anton Shilov on 8/4/2017
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