September 15, 2023

Samsung Slashes NAND Output by 50%, Prices to Slowly Edge Higher

According to a recent report via TrendForce, the NAND flash market will soon break away from its trend of decreasing prices. According to the market analysis firm, Samsung, the world's biggest NAND manufacturer by market share (31%), has taken a decisive counter against softening demand - and consequent falling prices.
September 6, 2023

Intel Demos Meteor Lake CPU with On-Package LPDDR5X

Intel on Wednesday demonstrated advancements of its sophisticated packaging technologies such as EMIB (embedded multi-die interconnect bridge) and Foveros and showed off its upcoming Meteor Lake processor with on-package LPDDR5X memory. It looks like Intel has taken a page from Apple's book as the company has been installing LPDDR memory on its M1 and M2 packages for a while now.
August 21, 2023

SK Hynix Samples 9 GT/s HBM3E: Up to 1.15 TB/s per Stack

SK Hynix said Monday that it finished the development of its first HBM3E memory modules and is now providing samples to its customers. The new memory stacks feature a data transfer rate of 9 GT/s, which exceeds the company's HBM3 stacks by a whopping 40%.
August 10, 2023

AMD Zen 1 Vulnerability Emerges, Dividing by 0 Can Leak Sensitive Data

Despite the fact that AMD's Zen 1 architecture is immune to the recent 'Inception' vulnerability affecting modern Zen 3 and Zen 4 CPUs, another vulnerability has been found that affects Zen 1 CPUs specifically. According to a report by Phoronix, a new Zen 1 vulnerability was found that can release potentially sensitive data if the CPU divides an integer calculation by the number 0 in Linux operating systems.