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...
Toshiba Is Studying The Possibility of Spinning Off NAND Flash Production
Toshiba on Wednesday confirmed that it is studying the possibility of splitting its NAND flash business into a separate company. While nothing has been decided as this point, the...
11 by Anton Shilov on 1/19/2017
SK Hynix Announces 8 GB LPDDR4X-4266 DRAM Packages
SK Hynix on Monday officially announced the industry’s first 8 GB LPDDR4X (LP4X) packages for next-generation mobile devices. The new memory chips not only increase DRAM performance but also...
5 by Anton Shilov on 1/11/2017
G.Skill Announces Trident Z DDR4 DIMMs for Kaby Lake CPUs
G.Skill on Wednesday introduced its new high-end DDR4 memory modules tested for compatibility with Intel’s new Core processors featuring the Kaby Lake microarchitecture. The new Trident Z modules come...
1 by Anton Shilov on 1/4/2017
SK Hynix to Build a New NAND Fab, Upgrade Existing DRAM Fab
SK Hynix on Thursday announced plans to build a new manufacturing facility to produce NAND flash memory in South Korea, and also upgrade its DRAM production plant in China...
16 by Anton Shilov on 12/23/2016
G.Skill Announces Trident Z RGB Illumination to DDR4
G.Skill this week has announced a new addition to its Trident Z family of high-performance DDR4 memory modules aimed at modders. The new Trident Z RGB will feature software-controllable...
11 by Anton Shilov on 12/21/2016
SK Hynix Updates Lineup: 8 GB LPDDR4 DRAM Packages for Mobile Devices
SK Hynix has quietly added its new 8 GB LPDDR4 package to the family of mobile DRAM offerings. The new package paves the way for single-package smartphones and tablets...
8 by Anton Shilov on 12/20/2016
Crucial Announces DDR4-2666 DIMMs for Upcoming Server Platforms
Crucial this week introduced an expansion of its server-grade modules lineup with DDR4-2666 offerings. The new DIMMs will be compatible with some of the current as well as upcoming...
5 by Anton Shilov on 12/16/2016
Micron Completes Acquisition of Inotera Memories
Micron this month completed acquisition of Inotera Memories, a DRAM production company it has co-owned for eight years controlled its output for three years. The acquisition is designed to...
1 by Anton Shilov on 12/12/2016
Transcend Introduces Extreme Temperature DDR4 SO-DIMMs
Transcend last week introduced a family of DDR4 SO-DIMMs that can operate in extreme temperature conditions. The modules are designed for industrial computers, special-purpose PCs, POS, ATM and other...
8 by Anton Shilov on 11/28/2016
Samsung Introduces 8 GB LPDDR4-4266 Package for Mobile Devices
Samsung this week announced its first LPDDR4 memory chips made using its 10nm-class DRAM fabrication technology. The new DRAM ICs feature the industry’s highest density of 16 Gb, are...
40 by Anton Shilov on 10/21/2016
G.Skill Shows Off Trident Z 8x8 GB and 8x16 DDR4-3333 Memory Kits
When Intel launched its new Core i7 Broadwell-E processors for high-end desktops earlier this year, all leading makers of motherboards released their new breed of Intel X99-based products that...
0 by Anton Shilov on 8/23/2016
Hot Chips 2016: Memory Vendors Discuss Ideas for Future Memory Tech - DDR5, Cheap HBM, & More
Continuing our Hot Chips 2016 coverage for the evening, along with the requisite presentations on processors, several of the major players in the memory industry are also at the...
11 by Ryan Smith on 8/23/2016
SK Hynix Adds HBM2 to Catalog: 4 GB Stacks Set to Be Available in Q3
SK Hynix has quietly added its HBM Gen 2 memory stacks to its public product catalog earlier this month, which means that the start of mass production should be...
43 by Anton Shilov on 8/1/2016
Patriot Adds Two Dual-Channel DDR4-3733 Memory Kits into Lineup
Patriot this week unveiled two new DDR4 kits rated to run at DDR4-3733. The dual-channel kits are designed for Intel’s latest platforms and belong to Patriot’s Viper Elite and...
12 by Anton Shilov on 7/29/2016
Price Check Q3 2016: DRAM Prices Down Over 20% Since Early 2016
Slow sales in the first half of 2016 have negatively affected suppliers of virtually all of PCs, tablets and smartphone components. Producers of DRAM typically suffer more than others...
37 by Anton Shilov on 7/25/2016
Corsair Unveils Vengeance LED Modules: DDR4 Gets Lighting, 4333 MT/s Data-Rate
Corsair has introduced its Vengeance LED family of memory modules designed for enthusiasts of high-performance PCs and modders. The fresh range of Corsair’s memory combines new design featuring LED...
18 by Anton Shilov on 6/29/2016
Kingston Updates HyperX DDR4 Lineup with DDR4-3000, DDR4-3200 Modules
Following Intel’s announcement of the new Core i7 Broadwell-E lineup of HEDT processors with six, eight and ten cores, Kingston has recently refreshed its HyperX family of DDR4 memory...
8 by Anton Shilov on 6/10/2016
Patriot to Release Viper DDR4-2400, DDR4-2800 SO-DIMMs for Laptops
Patriot Memory has introduced its first enthusiast-class DDR4 SO-DIMMs for high-performance-notebooks and small form-factor PCs. The new Patriot Viper modules will combine fairly high clock-rates with decent capacities, thus...
6 by Anton Shilov on 6/2/2016
Corsair Announces Dominator Platinum Special Edition and Vengeance LED Memory Modules
In the last 10 years, Corsair has greatly expanded its product lineup and nowadays it produces virtually the whole range of hardware and accessories for enthusiasts with the exception...
16 by Anton Shilov on 6/1/2016
Corsair Launches Dominator Platinum Memory Modules for ASUS ROG Systems
Corsair has introduced its new custom-built kit of Dominator Platinum memory modules, which are specifically designed for ASUS ROG motherboards. The new DDR4 modules contain an exclusive SPD profile...
29 by Anton Shilov on 5/27/2016
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