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Electronic Times reported yesterday, citing unnamed sources in the industry, Samsung Electronics early this month and major customers to increase the price of DRAM chips to reach an agreement.The specific ratio varies from customer to customer, but the average rate of increase has been determined: -DDR4 DRAM prices rose on average by double-digit percentages; -DDR5 […]

——Data storage company Seagate is working to develop a 100TB hard drive by 2030, a company executive revealed on Wednesday, as demand for the 70-year-old technology surges in data centers amid the artificial intelligence boom. Seagate Chief Commercial Officer BS Teh said in an interview that the company aims to launch such a drive by 2030, which […]

(Image credit: AMD) AMD is reportedly preparing to debut its RDNA 4 workstation GPU offerings for desktops, presumably under the Radeon Pro W9000 family. As put forwaard by Hoang Anh Phu, who frequently obtains inside scoops, AMD is considering using the Navi 48 XTW die for its top-end SKUs, paired with 32GB of video memory, likely GDDR6. As […]

— The new AMD EPYC CPU, codenamed “Venice”, is the first high-performance computing product to use TSMC’s next-generation N2 process technology — Taipei, Taiwan, April 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — AMD today announced that its next-generation AMD EPYC™ processors, codenamed “Venice,” are the industry’s first high-performance computing (HPC) products tape-out and powered by Taiwan Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Corporation […]

Last October, AMD  launched the industry’s first UEC 1.0 specification network card, called “AMD Pensando Pollara 400 AI NIC”, for HPC and AI data centers, which can reduce the complexity of performance tuning and help shorten output time, and is expected to bring a six-fold performance improvement to AI workloads. In addition to performance improvements, it […]

Nvidia’s GTC conference has focused heavily — almost exclusively — on AI this year. Everything shown seems to have an AI connection. And one thing we know about AI is that it needs a lot of memory, and a lot of storage to hold the increasingly large models. That’s where Kioxia’s new LC9 data center […]

On March 7, a price increase notice letter suspected to be sent by NAND flash memory manufacturer Sandisk to its partners showed that the manufacturer plans to increase prices of all products for channels and consumer customers from April 1, and the increase will exceed 10%. SanDisk said in the notice that it expects the […]

March 19 that Micron and SK Hynix, two major DRAM memory manufacturers, officially announced the new SOCAMM memory module today. Micron said that this type of memory bar will be used in Nvidia’s GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra super chip and is expected to be used as replaceable memory for Grace CPU. SOCAMM stands for Small Outline Compression Attached Memory Module , which […]

X platform users @All The Watts!!!! It was revealed yesterday that AMD will be launching “RDNA 4” architecture discrete graphics cards under the Radeon RX 90X0 rather than RX 8X00 family name, with these cards expected to be officially unveiled as early as the upcoming CES 2025. Previous benchmarks have suggested that AMD will name […]

The latest report on the global AI server market for Q2 2024 has been published by market research firm Counterpoint Research. The report reveals a compelling trend: the demand for AI servers has skyrocketed on the back of the AI technology boom, which in turn is contributing to the rapid growth of the overall server […]