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The Hot Take: GOOD.
A user-reported G. Skill warranty case has highlighted the extreme change in DDR5 pricing while also demonstrating the practical value of a lifetime memory warranty.
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Micron is reportedly pulling the plug on its 2 GB (16Gb) GDDR7 memory chips, ending production and sales of both the 28 Gbps and 32 Gbps variants. According to an X post by UNIKO’s Hardware, the chips — some of which shipped on some GeForce RTX 50 graphics cards — are now designated as “End of Life” on Micron's site. Tom’s Hardware can confirm that the pages for module norms return “No results found.”Micron just began supplying its 2GB GDDR7 to Nvidia earlier this year, with Samsung and SK Hynix being the main GDDR7 suppliers. As a result,…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Don't see how much worse it can get when it's basically in complete collapse. Is this because we're supposed to be using CXMT memory chips?
Intel chief executive Lip-Bu Tan warned that the memory shortage battering PCs and smartphones could get even worse in 2027. Speaking at the AI Infrastructure Summit in Santa Clara on 15 September, Tan said the industry had underestimated how serious the memory bottleneck would become. “Early last year, I said that ‘memory would become a bottleneck.’ Many people did not realise it back then, but as a result, I was right,” Tan said. According to DigiTimes Tan expects conditions to deteriorate further next year as AI infrastructure…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Interesting if it happens, the industry is already thing as is with stock.
Micron’s Taiwan workers are threatening a strike unless the memory chipmaker agrees to permanent profit sharing as AI profits pile up. According to Reuters, a Taiwanese union representing Micron Technology workers said it could move towards industrial action if the company fails to make a concrete proposal. For those not in the know, Taiwan is a crucial manufacturing centre for Micron’s DRAM and high-bandwidth memory chips, which have become particularly tasty commodities thanks to the AI server boom. No strike has been called, and…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Whoa! Wonder if Intel's next desktop CPUs will get that 6400MT/s faster ram after all.
Micron has demoed the world's first 512 GB DDR5 memory module that hits speeds of up to 9200 MT/s, enabling next-generation servers. AI Demand Pushes Memory Makers To Produce Denser DDR5 Modules, Now Packing 512 GB & 9200 MT/s In Micron's Latest Design Agentic AI and memory-intensive workflows have pushed the DRAM requirements through the stratosphere, and memory vendors such as Micron are actively working towards next-gen technologies to meet this demand. Micron's latest product is designed to meet these requirements, packing up to 512 GB…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Will there be any DDR5 available at this speed? Because if you go to NewEgg you only see speeds up to 6400MT/s....
Intel has confirmed that its next-generation Nova Lake 12Xe mobile processor with integrated graphics supports DDR5 memory modules up to 8000MT/s CSO-DIMM speeds, according to a September 3 Weibo report from user @金猪升级包.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: AGAIN, suddenly we explain this to the world, is this to head off all the questions on where the DRAM supply is going? Coordinated.
Samsung has outlined an ambitious three-stage roadmap for High Bandwidth Memory, culminating in an architecture called zHBM that effectively merges memory and compute into the same vertically integrated package.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Suddenly we explain this to the world, is this to head off all the questions on where the DRAM supply is going?
The silicon industry has arrived at a consensus that the HBM pathway to unlock incremental AI compute is stalling, especially as converting silicon wafers into an HBM stack yields far less usable capacity than commodity DRAM, prompting the wider industry to start experimenting with SRAM-only decode, Processor-In-Memory (PIM) within LPDDR, CXL pooling, and 3D DRAM. Of course, it is the 3D DRAM architecture that is considered somewhat of a panacea at the moment, as highlighted by AMD's recent admission as to its phenomenal energy efficiency.…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: How can you even call that a warranty?
The days when it was easy to just purchase a separate RAM kit are over, as the memory shortage means customers will adopt austerity measures to keep their PC hardware alive and kicking for as long as possible. A 16GB Patriot DDR4 RAM owner started experiencing errors with one of his sticks, prompting him to take advantage of the “lifetime warranty.” Unfortunately, that meant he’d have to ship over the RAM, which is more than 80 percent of the cost of DDR4 memory. Due to the customer’s location, it becomes a necessity to ship the DDR4 RAM to…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Corporate espionage, smh.
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China's largest maker of dynamic random access memory (DRAM), planned to obtain Samsung's IP related to its memory process technologies in a bid to develop its own production nodes, according to testimony given in a South Korean criminal case involving leaked Samsung technology, reports Maeil Business. The company's managers allegedly had no intention to develop an in-house process technology from scratch, so obtaining IP from Samsung was a strategic decision.Go deeper with TH Premium: Memory(Image credit:…
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