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Paul Lilly - Sat, Jul 26, 2025
During a recent earnings call, memory maker SK hynix confirmed that it is preparing bigger-capacity GDDR7 memory chips for future GPU launches. Specifically, the company is readying 24-gigabit (Gb)-based GDDR7 memory chips, or 3 gigabytes...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, May 02, 2025
G.Skill continues to push out higher capacity and faster DDR5 memory kits at a frenetic pace. It's latest offering, which is announced but not yet available at retail, is a large capacity 128GB memory kit comprised of two 64GB modules...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Sep 26, 2024
SK hynix, which notably supplies memory chips to NVIDIA (among other customers), said it has begun volume production of the world's first 12-layer high bandwidth memory 3E (HBM3E) chips in a 36GB capacity, which is the largest capacity of...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Aug 06, 2024
SK hynix is on track to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from the US CHIPS and Science Act to help pay for a semiconductor packaging plant in Indiana. In total, SK hynix plans to invest $3.87 billion on the production...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Jul 31, 2024
There are basically three important characteristics for a memory technology: its latency, its bandwidth, and the power it uses. Disparate workloads have differing requirements, though. Graphics, generally speaking, cares relatively little...
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Alan Velasco - Mon, Jul 22, 2024
NVIDIA has ridden the current boom in AI to become one of the most valuable companies on planet Earth, as its AI specific hardware continues to sell like hot cakes. This is because companies in just about every sector are looking to...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Jun 28, 2024
If you want a PCIe 5.0 SSD right now, your options are basically limited to drives based on Phison's potent E26 controller. We like Phison around here, but from a consumer perspective, it's always good to have competition. That's why we're...
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Alan Velasco - Thu, Apr 04, 2024
SK hynix will be building its next advanced packaging fabrication site alongside an R&D facility in West Lafayette, Indiana. The company will be investing $3.87 billion in the project where it will be manufacturing AI products. According...
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Thiago Trevisan - Fri, Mar 22, 2024
With the age of AI fully upon us, the arms race for the best technology is taking on a blistering pace. SK hynix is pushing the boundaries of memory speed, with a potential 40Gbps for GDDR7 spotted at GTC 2024. This outshines what Samsung...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Feb 23, 2024
If you're coming to us from a PC gaming perspective, you're almost assuredly aware of the standard DDR5 memory and the graphics-optimized GDDR6(X) memory. You might not be familiar with High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). This technology uses an...
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Thiago Trevisan - Mon, Nov 20, 2023
The mighty GPU is shaping up to be one of the most significant innovations of human technology during the last few decades. While games such as Alan Wake 2 demonstrate visual chops that can often mimic reality, there is much more at stake...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Nov 13, 2023
SK hynix announced today that it has begun supplying 16-gigabyte (GB) packages of its Low Power Double Data Rate 5 Turbo (LPDDR5T) memory to global smartphone makers, after having announced development of the turbo-charged chips back in...
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- Wed, Oct 25, 2023
Although Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is the star of the show when it comes to showcasing the next generation of smartphones and their performance, a processor can only do so much on its own. Fast memory is required to give such a...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Aug 29, 2023
It still feels like we're getting our feet wet with the latest-generation graphics cards from AMD and NVIDIA, the former of which just expanded its lineup with the Radeon RX 7800 XT and Radeon RX 7700 XT at Gamescom. Be that as it may...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Aug 21, 2023
SK hynix has developed what it claims is the world's best performing HBM3e memory with throughput of up to 1.15 terabytes (TB) per second. Translated into real-world workloads, that's fast enough to process more than 230 Full HD 1080p...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Aug 11, 2023
SK hynix announced it is now mass producing what it claims is the industry's first 24-gigabyte (GB) Low Power Double Data Rate 5X (LPDDR5X) mobile DRAM for a new round of smartphones with more memory than ever before. OnePlus is getting...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Aug 10, 2023
SK hynix is showing off a sample of its 321-layer 1-terabit (Tb) triple-level cell (TLC) "4D" NAND chips, which is notable because it's the first time a chip maker has stacked over 300 layers of NAND flash memory. The demonstration took...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jun 08, 2023
It was around 10 months ago when SK hynix announced the development of 238-layer triple-level cell (TLC) NAND flash memory, which it markets as "4D" technology, and now it has entered the mass production phase. In doing so, SK hynix paves...
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Aaron Klotz - Thu, Apr 20, 2023
SK hynix has announced the world’s first 12-layer HBM3 product featuring capacities of 24GB, representing a 50% increase in memory capacity over the company's previous 12GB products. This will greatly accelerate the growth of storage...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jan 25, 2023
SK hynix finds itself in a braggadocios mood after developing what the memory maker claims is the fastest mobile DRAM solution on the planet. That in an of itself is noteworthy, but in case anyone might overlook the achievement, SK hynix...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 13, 2023
Hot on the heels of Intel formally unveiling its 4th Gen Xeon Scalable processors (otherwise known as Sapphire Rapids), SK hynix is pounding its chest over having obtained the industry's first validation for '1anm' DDR5 DRAM on Intel's...
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Chris Goetting - Thu, Oct 20, 2022
Solidigm may not yet be a household name for some of our readers, but it should be. The company was spun out of Intel’s SSD and NAND flash business as part of its sale to SK Hynix last year. We were impressed by Solidigm’s D7-P5520 NVMe...
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