Samsung introduces 3rd-generation HBM2E for HPC
Stacks eight 16Gb DRAM dies to 16GB with transfer speed at 3.2 Gbps
Micron reveals its strategy for growth in the memory and storage markets
Micron Technology, in its 40th year and flush with new revenues from the huge amounts of memory being used by data centers, AI, gaming, visualization, etc., announced at the new event, Insight ’18, its future plans that include support for AI startups and developers. Micron staked out its position as being at the front of several technology transitions and highlighted … Read more
If you thought five was good, wait till you see six
Samsung is the first to announce the availability of JEDEC GDDR6 CMOS 8 Gb through 16 Gb x16 dual channel SGRAM (Synchronous Graphics Random Access Memory) memory devices for use in advanced graphics processing for gaming devices and graphics cards as well as automotive, network and artificial intelligence systems. “Beginning with this early production of the industry’s first 16Gb GDDR6,” … Read more
Pivooto claims compression denser than WebP
A clever Dutch game developer based in Eindhoven developed a new, very efficient compression engine, originally targeted for handheld games. He named the engine Pivooto and used the name for their company too. Hugo Smits, the CEO and founder, came up with the name Pivooto by combining the words photo and pivot. Files uses the extension .piv. Pivooto is a … Read more
ST Microelectronics Orlando Inferencing Engine.
The CNN accelerator field continues to get more crowded. ST Micro quietly previewed their Orlando high-efficiency inferencing accelerator at CES and have now gone public with an announcement at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona. Built on ST’s proprietary 28nm FD-SOI process, the chip is still described as a prototype but it is supported with a full set of production … Read more
GDDR6 is available—or is it?
Three fabs are producing , expect to see in AIBs later this year Although a lot of people thought the highly parallel high bandwidth 3D memory (HBM) would be the logical heir to GDDR for graphics AIBs, its price and manufacturing costs outweigh its benefits in some cases. Therefore, to be as flexible as possible, the AIB builders need the … Read more
Toshiba agrees to sell memory chip business for $18B but must overcome a few more obstacles
Toshiba’s struggles to maintain status on the Tokyo Stock Exchange In 2006, Toshiba acquired Westinghouse’s nuclear subsidiary with the hope they would be able to participate in nuclear projects in the United States. Subsequently, the nuclear subsidiary has filed for bankruptcy after experiencing a rough year of cost overruns and price surges on projects in Georgia and South Carolina; projects … Read more