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Domestic semiconductor manufacturing might be about to get a very interesting shake-up. According to a recent report, SK hynix is in discussions with Intel about a potential partnership to manufacture memory chips in the United States, and...
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Micron has demonstrated what it claims is the world's first 512GB DDR5 module on multiple server platforms, and in doing so, the memory chip maker gives data center administrators a path to obscene amounts of RAM in server environments—up...
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These are some wild times we live in. Widespread memory shortages and skyrocketing component costs driven by an onslaught of AI factory build-outs have sent shockwaves across the hardware landscape over the past year, resulting in price...
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Fifth-generation DDR SDRAM, known more commonly as DDR5, launched in its "LP" form with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865 in February of 2020. Those chips were first found in the Xiaomi Mi 10 smartphone. It's been almost seven years since then...
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SK hynix has officially broken ground on its first U.S. manufacturing site, kicking off construction on a $4 billion advanced packaging and R&D facility in West Lafayette, Indiana. Located within the Purdue Research Park, the 133-acre...
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Micron has announced a $10 billion commitment over the next decade to establish Micron Research Labs, a long-horizon research institution headquartered in Boise, Idaho. The new hub is designed to look well beyond today's standard DRAM and...
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G.Skill has begun dispersing payments related to a class-action lawsuit settlement that was reached earlier this year. If you purchased a kit of G.Skill RAM within the past several years, check your email's spam folder and/or payment app...
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SK hynix isn't waiting around to see if the AI boom cools off. The South Korean chipmaker's board of directors has approved a 54.3 trillion won (around $38.1 billion in U.S. currency) investment to build two massive new fabrication plants...
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At the Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) 2026 conference last week in Santa Clara, Samsung outlined its long-term vision for the next generation of AI infrastructure. While even limited deployment is still over the horizon, the headline...
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Microsoft is quietly rewriting its hardware guidance for Windows 11. Not long ago, the company made headlines for calling 32GB the "no worries" sweet spot for gaming on Windows. Now that recommendation has vanished into thin air as...
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At the Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) 2026 conference in Santa Clara, memory titans SK hynix and Sandisk have formally released the first open technical specification for High-Bandwidth Flash (HBF) through the Open Compute Project...
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It got a bit buried in all the other announcements, but back at Computex in May, AMD announced EXPO Ultra Low Latency (EXPO ULL), a new classification of memory kits that not only run high transfer rates but also exceptionally low...
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Modular laptop maker Framework has released a transparent and "unfortunate" update addressing severe volatility in the silicon market, following up on previous aggressive price hikes on memory modules, warning that recent component cost...
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If you were planning to upgrade to a Pixel 11 next month, prepare to pay more for it than what you might expect. Shakil Barkat, Google’s Vice President of Devices and Services, confirmed in an interview with 9to5Google that price hikes are...
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As global demand for AI compute continues to outpace available hardware, NVIDIA and South Korea’s SK Group have announced an expanded, multi-faceted partnership valued at over $500 billion. Formalized via letters of intent at an AI Summit...
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There is conflicting information on precisely how long the memory crunch will last, and it's obviously a point of interest considering how the chip shortage is affecting prices of not just PC RAM, but consoles like the Switch 2 (due for a...
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Look, we all know what time it is and so whenever a market research firm releases a report on the state of PC shipments, we pretty much know the gist of it. So it goes again, with Omdia's latest reporting highlighting yet another quarterly...
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Whatever you think about the Steam Machine, the fact is it's launching into a brutal market for anyone trying to sell a gaming product. So brutal, in fact, that Valve has been unable to source the 8GB SODIMMs that it originally planned to...
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Memory maker G.Skill caught some heat after its new memory kits supporting AMD's EXPO Ultra Low Latency (ULL) profiles debuted at eye-watering prices as high as $1,099.99 for 32GB (2x16GB) of DDR5-6000 RAM. Even though memory is expensive...
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An AI-driven shortage of key components, especially memory and storage chips, has driven up the price of a range of electronics, including not only DDR5 memory kits and PC solid state drives (SSDs), but also things like game consoles, consumer laptops, and so forth. Will lower-priced...
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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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