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| SK Hynix looks into 321-layer NAND production |
8/10/2023 |
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SK hynix unveiled the sample of the 321-layered NAND flash chip at the Flash Memory Summit 2023 that kicked off its three-day run in Santa Clara, California. This is the first time any chipmaker has revealed a specific development timeline of a NAND with more than 300 layers.
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| China lags in AI chip ambitions |
8/8/2023 |
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Beijing’s ambitions of joining the world’s top memory-chip makers could seriously hinder China’s ability to develop large artificial intelligence (AI) models when the country is already reliant on US suppliers such as Nvidia for sanctions-compliant versions of graphics processing units, or GPUs,
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| Fujitsu offers Automotive Grade 512kb FeRAM |
8/8/2023 |
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The MB85RC512LY is a non-volatile memory with 512kb memory density and operates at a low power supply voltage from 1.7V to 1.95V. It features extremely low operating current.
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| Renesas to Acquire Sequans |
8/8/2023 |
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The acquisition of Sequans will expand Renesas' presence in the WAN market space encompassing a broad range of data rates.
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| Infineon to build new 200mm SiC fab in Malaysia |
8/7/2023 |
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Over and above the original investment announced in February 2022—Infineon will build the world’s largest 200-millimeter silicon carbide (SiC) Power Fab. The planned expansion is backed by customer commitments covering about €5 billion of new design-wins in automotive and industrial applications as well as about one billion euros in pre-payments.
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| Intel's Arc A580 GPU keeps the market guessing |
8/7/2023 |
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The Arc A580 comes with 24 Xe cores, 8GB of GDDR6 memory across a 256-bit bus, and the same bandwidth as the Arc A750 and the 8GB version of the Arc A770 — 512GB/s. The maximum clock speed is said to be 1.7GHz, but the card surpassed it by far in the benchmark, maxing out at 2.4GHz.
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| Hyundai, Kia, Samsung back AI chip startup Tenstorrent |
8/7/2023 |
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Tenstorrent, which before this funding had already raised $234.5 million was valued at $1 billion, is one of several upstarts looking to challenge Nvidia (NVDA.O), the market leader in supplying chips to develop artificial intelligence products like ChatGPT.
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| Leading IC Firms Partner to Drive RISC-V Ecosystem Development |
8/7/2023 |
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Formed in Germany, this company will aim to accelerate the commercialization of future products based on the open-source RISC-V architecture. The company will be a single source to enable compatible RISC-V based products, provide reference architectures, and help establish solutions widely used in the industry. Initial application focus will be automotive.
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| Teledyne LeCroy offers SSD Power and Sideband Test Capabilities |
8/4/2023 |
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SSD design and validation test engineers can now use the OakGate R350-G5-PowerPlus Rackmount Appliance to analyze voltage and current over time and under stress to determine SSD power utilization, efficiency, and consumption, and possibly find opportunities to improve SSD power consumption.
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| Wave of used DDR4 DRAM are getting into new memory modules |
8/3/2023 |
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Besides putting additional downward pricing pressure on a market that has almost imploded compared to its historic levels, there's also a justified concern that products packing these chips might fail earlier than expected.
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| Companies are steadily designing their own custom silicon |
8/3/2023 |
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This trend doesn’t benefit suppliers of standard CPUs and SoCs like AMD, Intel and Qualcomm. But it’s very beneficial for other industry players, such as developers of EDA software, IP houses, contract chip designers and, of course, foundries.
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