HBM dominance could double SK Hynix’s market cap
The AI hype has turned Nvidia into a trillion-dollar company. Although Korean memory manufacturer SK Hynix will not reach that astronomical amount anytime soon, it claims it's on track to double its value within the next three years. As the court supplier of HBM memory for AI chips, that prediction... Read more
New York gets new R&D chip complex, purchases advanced ASML machines
There will be a new research complex for advanced chips at the University of Albany in New York. New York State, along with IBM and Micron, among others, is investing $10 billion.
The new facility will be built at the Albany NanoTech Complex, The Wall Street Journal reports. New York State itsel... Read more
Chinese YMTC accuses U.S. chipmaker Micron of patent infringement
Chinese chip manufacturer Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) is accusing its U.S. competitor Micron Technology of patent infringement. The company is taking the allegation to the U.S. courts.
According to Reuters, YTMC is accusing Micron Technology of patent infringement on eight of its patents.... Read more
China deems Micron products a threat to national security
In April, Beijing initiated a national security evaluation of Micron and its offerings. It cited "security risks arising from latent product issues" found in some of Micron's silicon sold to Chinese clients. On Sunday, Chinese authorities declared that Micron had failed the evaluation.
According... Read more
Samsung predicts a petabyte SSD in the next decade
At the recent China Flash Memory Market Summit, Samsung has boldly predicted that a single SSD capacity could reach 1 PB within the next decade. This comes after the company showcased a prototype 128TB SSD at last year's August Flash Memory Summit.
The device used QLC (4 bits/cell) NAND, boasted... Read more
Micron to invest up to $100 billion in New York memory chip plant
Micron Technology plans to invest up to $100 billion in constructing a cutting-edge memory chip plant in Clay, New York.
Micron announced the project this morning. Once completed, the semiconductor plant will be the biggest chip manufacturing plant ever built in the United States, according to t... Read more
Micron announces $15 billion memory chip plant in Idaho
Micron Technology revealed plans to build a new $15 billion memory chip plant in Idaho.
Idaho-based Micron is a leading DRAM and flash memory chips manufacturer. The company's products can be found in anything from data center servers to cell phones. Micron earned $27.7 billion in sales in its f... Read more
Micron to invest $40 billion in US chip manufacturing
The move amounts to the largest ever investment in US memory manufacturing.
This week Micron announced that it would invest $40 billion through the end of the decade to build leading-edge memory manufacturing in multiple phases in the US. With the anticipated grants and credits made possible by ... Read more
Micron’s new SSDs could change data centers forever
Micron's latest NAND modules bring the 'perfect' data center SSD one step closer.
Micron recently announced a new NAND design. NAND is a storage technology for solid state drives (SSD). Micron develops NAND modules in hopes of producing faster and larger SDDs. Ultimately, the SSDs end up in PCs ... Read more
‘Chip shortages will also hit DRAM supply’
This year, a major shortage of DRAM memory is expected. Sanjay Mehrotra, the CEO of Micron, expects this shortage to worsen over the course of the year. Problems such as natural disasters and political unrest will only make the chip shortages worse.
This is what the leader of the memory chip man... Read more