Anton Shilov

PCI-SIG has revealed the specs for PCIe 7.0, and its plans for 8.0.

A lot of questions, a lot of answers.

As power consumption of accelerators for supercomputers continues to grow in the coming years, AMD expects zetta scale-class datacenters to consume 500 megawatts, require nuclear reactor.

An expensive delay

China stays mum regarding the performance of its latest supercomputing installations.

At London Tech Week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claimed that AI has advanced a millionfold over the past decade, likely referencing explosive growth in GPU performance and system scale.

Large reasoning models fail at complex tasks.

Y-Combinator-backed startup eyes powerful laser wakefield accelerator for advanced lithography techniques.

Micron has petitioned the Supreme Court to reverse earlier rulings that granted YMTC’s legal team access to 73 pages of confidential 3D NAND documents, citing national security concerns.

Zotac turned its April Fool's joke into reality by launching a new fragrance line designed for gamers.

Tesla's Stress tool detects and disables faulty cores in Dojo wafer-scale processors, which power Dojo clusters with millions of cores, without interrupting AI training.

Kioxia is developing a 10M IOPS XL-Flash SSD with peer-to-peer GPU connectivity to eliminate bottlenecks and deliver low-latency, small-block access optimized for AI training and inference workloads.

Sounds like ASE liked the CPUs.

Shipments of AMD's GPUs in Q1 declined almost twofold from Q4 despite the launch of Radeon RX 9070-series products that AMD deems successful.

That's a lot.

If ever.

TeamGroup has expanded its high-end PCIe 5.0 SSD lineup to six different families based on four controller vendors to cover a wide range of performance and price points.

Intel secures a jury verdict confirming that Fortress Investment Group controls VLSI Technology, a decision that may overturn more than $3 billion in patent infringement awards from Intel to VLSI.

Molex unveiled its Genesis connector and cable system at Computex, targeting future PCIe 7.0 deployments with a design optimized for 128 GT/s signaling.

Realtek is attempting to enter the SSD controller market with its RTS5781DL, a PCIe 5.0 DRAM-less controller that is now sampling. But can it compete with established players?

InnoGrit demonstrates reference solid-state drive based on Kioxia's XL-Flash memory: custom-built XL-Flash-based drives on the way?

Biwin officially launches the Maxio MAP1806-based X570 SSD that is expected to offer leading-edge performance and a low price.

At Computex 2025, Western Digital confirmed plans to begin mass production of HAMR-based hard drives in 2027, starting with 36TB, 40TB, and 44TB models.

Frore Systems launched its second-generation AirJet Mini solid-state cooling chip at Computex, delivering 50% greater heat dissipation in the same compact form factor.

Silicon Motion is breaking Phison’s monopoly in the high-end PCIe 5.0 SSD market as over a dozen companies, including Micron, Crucial, Kingston, and Lexar, adopt its SM2508 controller.