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Apple is reportedly urging the United States government to green light the purchase of memory chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), a Chinese semiconductor supplier that is on the Trump administration's blacklist over alleged...
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Anyone holding out hope that memory and SSD prices will eventually drift back to pre-2025 levels probably needs to recalibrate those expectations. At ISC 2026 in Hamburg, Germany, Lenovo delivered a sobering message to industry attendees...
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SK hynix just announced the delivery of its 12-layer HBM4E memory samples to major hardware clients, intensifying the competition to supply the memory backbone for future AI accelerators. The new fat stacks of RAM represent a significant...
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Life comes at you fast, doesn't it? Just a few days ago, we wrote about Apple's upcoming iPhone Fold, anticipated to debut in the neighborhood of $1,999, could potentially shield iPhone 18 Pro buyers from price hikes. And now? One of Apple...
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It flew under the radar a bit, but one of the exciting announcements at Computex was AMD's new EXPO Ultra Low Latency standard for PC memory. This is, essentially, RAM that has been pre-qualified for operation at high speeds with...
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Overclocking in pursuit of achieving world records has very much become a team sport, and so there are plenty of kudos to around with the DDR5 memory frequency record now set at precisely 13,556.8 MT/s. User 'Saltycroissant' achieved the...
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NVIDIA is expanding its partnership with SK hynix by inking a multi-year technology partnership aimed at ensuring a steady supply of next generation memory products for a wave of hardware designs, including Vera Rubin supercomputers, Vera...
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The second half of 2026 will not bring much relief to the PC market that has been ravaged by soaring memory and storage prices, and instead is shaping up to be turbulent, according to IDC. According to the market research firm, PC...
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If you're struggling to justify new PC parts at current pricing, the top brass at SK hynix has some news for you, though you might want to take it with a healthy dose of salt. Speaking to reporters in Taipei, SK hynix Chairman Chey Tae-won...
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Cooler Master and G.Skill have joined forces on fan-cooled memory modules that they plan to showcase at Computex next week. In the meantime, we get some teaser shots posted to X of the MasterDimm AC DDR5 memory, as it's called, which is...
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Shares of Samsung are surging after the South Korean chip maker revealed it has begun shipping samples of its 12-layer HBM4E to major customers around the globe, giving it temporary bragging rights over rivals Micron and SK hynix. The...
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Following the reveal of its retro-inspired ROG Crosshair 2006 X870E motherboard, Asus is showing off some ROG-branded, Hynix-based DDR5 RAM running at 8800 MT/s with the powerful AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 CPU. It's an impressive overclock...
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If you thought your shiny new 192GB DDR5 rig was bleeding-edge, it's time to take a seat. Micron just announced that it is sampling 256GB DDR5 RDIMM modules pushing a blistering 9200 MT/s. Yes, that is indeed a single stick of memory...
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JEDEC is pushing server memory even faster with its next-generation DDR5 MRDIMM roadmap, and no, this probably isn't the kind of RAM you'll be dropping into your next gaming PC. The standards body announced new milestones for DDR5 MRDIMM...
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If you bought some slow RAM to save money during the ongoing RAMageddon, you could manually overclock it to achieve greater memory performance. Alternatively, you could use an automatic overclock tool, like ASUS' AEMP. In a new Reddit...
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Asha Sharma, executive vice president and chief executive officer of Xbox, has gone on record saying that yes indeed, "memory costs will impact pricing" of Microsoft's next-generation game console. Not maybe, not might, but will. Not that...
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Remember when LPDDR memory was just strictly meant for thin-and-light laptops and smartphones? Those days are officially over. While we originally saw JEDEC unleash the foundational LPDDR6 standard in July of last year to fuel faster...
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One key component of memory manufacturing is the cleanroom required to assemble the memory chips, but what if you had a factory-grade cleanroom in your own backyard? YouTuber Dr Semiconductor does, and he's also equipped with the working...
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You don't need me to tell you things are bad in the PC DIY market; everybody knows things are bad. The memory crunch, severe enough to earn the moniker "RAMageddon", has grossly inflated the prices of graphics cards, game consoles, SSDs, and of course, memory. In what we can only describe as a...
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SK hynix has begun mass producing 192GB SOCAMM2 designed for NVIDIA's next-generation Vera Rubin platform that will power agentic AI factories, the company announced. According to SK hynix, its big-capacity memory modules also deliver big...
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Would you rather settle for having less DRAM in your PC or less solid state drive (SSD) storage? It's a fair question in today's landscape, and according to Lexar, most gamers are more inclined to skimp on system memory versus skimping on...
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As the global AI boom continues to fracture the traditional semiconductor supply chain, manufacturers are searching for novel ways to increase memory density and throughput without the astronomical cost of flagship HBM solutions. According...
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