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Hyperscalers commit nearly $2 trillion to secure AI hardware and memory — Google leads $811 billion spending surge while Apple trails at $57 billion
1w agoAnthropic co-designing custom AI inference chips to bypass costly Nvidia GPUs — Samsung reported as manufacturing partner for Claude maker
1w agoMicrosoft quietly purges 32GB of RAM recommendations from its website — company reels from the effects of the memory shortage as it released 8GB base models for Surface laptops this year
1w agoThree major PC makers now using Chinese memory to fight 'unprecedented memory shortage,' report claims — HP, Asus, and Acer using 'small amounts' of CXMT chips in limited number of notebooks for non-US market
1w agoNew PC purchases see sharpest drop in nearly three years as memory and storage prices bite — shipments fall by 7%, analysts forecast 14% contraction that will hit budget laptops hard
New PC purchases see sharpest drop in nearly three years as memory and storage prices bite — shipments fall by 7%, analysts forecast 14% contraction that will hit budget laptops hard
Nvidia RTX 50 Super GPUs are reportedly ready, but stuck in limbo due to excessive GDDR7 pricing — 3GB GDDR7 module costs triple the price of 2GB
…SK hynix, one of the big three memory chip manufacturers, even says that 2027 is set to be the “worst year” for the memory shortage and said that the crunch will last…
Gigabyte announces support for Chinese-made CXMT memory — pushes it to 8200 MT/s on Socket AM5
…and LPDDR-based systems rarely come below 110-120ns. As Gigabyte says, "CXSH (CXMT) chip-based memory offers a welcome additional source of supply for consumers." (CXSH is the JEDEC manufacturer ID…
JEDEC releases new SPHBM4 standard to slash AI memory costs — Narrow 512-bit interface enables dropping expensive interposers for organic substrates
…HBM4 performance with a 512-bit wide interface Although 1024-bit and 2048-bit interfaces used by HBM3 and HBM4 memory deliver unbeatable performance, their wide interfaces consume significant silicon area inside…
16-year-old SATA II SSD survives 1 petabyte of writes
…AI shortages AI data centers are swallowing the world's memory and storage supply Chip scarcity assaults auto industry amid the worsening Nexperia and DRAM crisis Samsung and SK hynix shorten memory…
Laser-driven spintronic memory device switches 1,000 times faster than DRAM —non-volatile device switches in 40 picoseconds while generating almost no heat
…Manufacturing scalability, endurance validation, cost competitiveness, and integration with existing CMOS manufacturing processes also remain unresolved. The history of computing is full of promising "next-generation memory" technologies that never displaced mature…
SK hynix to invest $712.5 billion in South Korean operations — Cheongju NAND expansion, Yongin Semiconductor Cluster for DRAM detailed
…manufacture 3D NAND flash, including M11, M12, and M15, and historically it was the company's main 3D NAND memory manufacturing center. However, because multi-layer 3D NAND and high-bandwidth memory…
Asus enters the RAM market during the largest memory shortage in history, 48GB kit lands at $880 — brand's first DDR5 kit makes the RTX 5070 Ti look like a bargain
…Many thought Asus would magically spin up a fabrication facility and begin manufacturing and selling memory. It was quite the opposite. The rumor was about the possibility of the company offering Asus…
8TB cards are set to ship 'shortly' after a two-year delay
…the manufacturer's looming 4TB microSDUC and 8TB SDUC cards could be pushing price tags close to $1,200 and $2,200, respectively. Follow Tom's Hardware on Google News , or add…