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The CXL consortium has had a regular presence at FMS (which rechristened itself from 'Flash Memory Summit' to the 'Future of Memory and Storage' this year). Back at FMS 2022, the company had announced v3.0 of the CXL specifications. This was followed by CXL 3.1's introduction at Supercomputing 2023. Having started off as a host to device interconnect standard, it had slowly subsumed other competing standards such as OpenCAPI and Gen-Z. As a result, the specifications started to encompass a wide variety of use-cases by building a protocol on top of the the ubiquitous PCIe expansion bus. The CXL consortium comprises of heavyweights such as AMD and Intel, as well as a large number of startup companies attempting to play in different segments on...
Micron Ships Denser & Faster 276 Layer TLC NAND, Arriving First In Micron 2650 Client SSDs
Micron on Tuesday announced that the company has begun shipping its 9th Generation (G9) 276 layer TLC NAND. The next generation of NAND from the prolific memory maker, Micron's...
4 by Anton Shilov on 7/31/2024
Micron Launches 9550 PCIe Gen5 SSDs: 14 GB/s with Massive Endurance
Micron has introduced its Micron 9550-series SSDs, which it claims are the fastest enterprise drives in the industry. The Micron 9550 Pro and 9550 Max SSDs with a PCIe...
11 by Anton Shilov on 7/24/2024
Crucial P310 NVMe SSD Unveiled: Micron's Play in the M.2 2230 Market
Hand-held gaming consoles based on notebook platforms (such as the Valve SteamDeck, ASUS ROG Ally, and the MSI Claw) are one of the fastest growing segments in the PC...
6 by Ganesh T S on 7/17/2024
Micron Expands Datacenter DRAM Portfolio with MR-DIMMs
The compute market has always been hungry for memory bandwidth, particularly for high-performance applications in servers and datacenters. In recent years, the explosion in core counts per socket has...
5 by Ganesh T S on 7/16/2024
Micron: U.S. Fabs Will Start Operating in 2026 - 2029
When Micron announced plans to build two new fabs in the U.S. in 2022, the company vaguely said both would come online by the decade's end. Then, in 2023...
2 by Anton Shilov on 6/27/2024
Micron's GDDR7 Chip Smiles for the Camera as Micron Aims to Seize Larger Share of HBM Market
UPDATE 6/12: Micron notified us that it expects its HBM market share to rise to mid-20% in the middle of calendar 2025, not in the middle of fiscal 2025. For...
15 by Anton Shilov on 6/7/2024
TSMC Readies Next-Gen HBM4 Base Dies, Built on 12nm and 5nm Nodes
Of the several major changes coming with HBM4 memory, one of the most immediate is the sheer width of the memory interface. With the fourth-generation memory standard moving from...
1 by Anton Shilov on 5/16/2024
Micron Ships Crucial-Branded LPCAMM2 Memory Modules: 64GB of LPDDR5X For $330
As LPCAMM2 adoption begins, the first retail memory modules are finally starting to hit the retail market, courtesy of Micron. The memory manufacturer has begun selling their LPDDR5X-based LPCAMM2...
13 by Anton Shilov on 5/8/2024
Report: Impact of Taiwanese Earthquake on DRAM Output to be Negligible in Q2
Following the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck Taiwan on April 3, 2024, there was immediate concern over what impact this could have on chip production within the country. Even...
2 by Anton Shilov on 4/10/2024
Micron Samples 256 GB DDR5-8800 MCR DIMMs: Massive Modules for Massive Servers
Micron this week announced that it had begun sampling of its 256 GB multiplexer combined (MCR) DIMMs, the company's highest-capacity memory modules to date. These brand-new DDR5-based MCRDIMMs are...
4 by Anton Shilov on 3/22/2024
Micron Sells Out Entire HBM3E Supply for 2024, Most of 2025
Being the first company to ship HBM3E memory has its perks for Micron, as the company has revealed that is has managed to sell out the entire supply of...
27 by Anton Shilov on 3/22/2024
JEDEC Publishes GDDR7 Memory Spec: Next-Gen Graphics Memory Adds Faster PAM3 Signaling & On-Die ECC
JEDEC on Tuesday published the official specifications for GDDR7 DRAM, the latest iteration of the long-standing memory standard for graphics cards and other GPU-powered devices. The newest generation of...
10 by Ryan Smith & Anton Shilov on 3/6/2024
Micron Kicks Off Production of HBM3E Memory
Micron Technology on Monday said that it had initiated volume production of its HBM3E memory. The company's HBM3E known good stack dies (KGSDs) will be used for Nvidia's H200...
8 by Anton Shilov on 2/26/2024
Crucial T705 Gen5 NVMe SSD: A 14.5 GBps Consumer Flagship with 2400 MT/s 232L NAND
Crucial is unveiling the latest addition to its Gen5 consumer NVMe SSD lineup today - the T705 PCIe 5.0 M.2 2280 NVMe SSD. It takes over flagship duties from...
34 by Ganesh T S on 2/20/2024
Global Semiconductor Sales Hit $526.8 Billion in 2023
The global semiconductor industry saw its sales dropped around $47 billion to nearly $527 billion in 2023, according to estimations by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). This was a...
13 by Anton Shilov on 2/9/2024
Micron at CES 2024: USB4 SSD Technology Demonstrations
Micron's consumer brand, Crucial Memory, has been putting extra focus on the SSD market over the last few quarters. The brand was marketing entry-level QLC drives in the 2018...
13 by Ganesh T S on 1/11/2024
LaCie Rugged Mini SSD Review: Power-Efficient Flash Storage at 20 Gbps
LaCie's portable storage drives have enjoyed a fan following, particularly among creative professionals valuing both performance and product design / appearance. After Seagate's acquisition, the brand has continued to...
8 by Ganesh T S on 1/3/2024
Micron Intros 3500 NVMe SSD: 232L 3D TLC and Phison E25 for the OEM Market
Micron has been on a roll lately with new product introductions despite the downturn in the flash market. The company is currently the only NAND manufacturer shipping products based...
7 by Ganesh T S on 12/5/2023
Crucial X10 Pro Portable SSD Review: 20 Gbps Performance in a Budget Offering
The portable SSD market has seen rapid growth over the last decade. Almost all of the tier-one NAND flash manufacturers have jumped in with multiple offerings, presenting consumers with...
19 by Ganesh T S on 11/10/2023
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