Back when the PC was just a toddler, memory prices dropped after spiking. “About 1985, the personal computer market was tremendously overextended,” Texas Instruments spokesman Stan Victor told the Chicago Tribune. “There were a lot of manufacturers, all fighting for the same 10-percent share of the market. Then, demand for computers started slowing, and the computer manufacturers found themselves with … Read more
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In computer graphics too much is never enough and in the case of memory speed, that is even more true. Micron just broke the speed limit and took GDDR6 from 768 GB/s up to 1 TB/s with their new GDDR6X
Stacks eight 16Gb DRAM dies to 16GB with transfer speed at 3.2 Gbps
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
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
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
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
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’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
