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Record-high pricing pushes SSD and memory makers to borrow $880 million just to afford buying chips
Adata is the largest single borrower in the group, having completed a NT$2 billion convertible bond issuance and secured NT$12 billion in bank loans.
Jay Forrester filed the first practical computer RAM patent 75 years ago this week
Granted as U.S. Patent 2,736,880 in February 1956, Forrester's invention evolved from MIT's Project Whirlwind.
Fully-functional RTX 3070 16GB gets frankensteined into existence by harvesting dead PCBs and RX 6800 XT's VRAM chips
A tech enthusiast has combined an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 (8GB) with defective memory and an AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT (16GB) with a damaged GPU to make a working RTX 3070 with 16GB of VRAM.
Samsung's critical union negotiations break down eight days before planned 18-day chip factory strike that's projected to cost $700 million per day
South Korean Prime Minister Kim Min-seok responded by convening an emergency ministerial meeting.
Apple quietly axes 128GB Mac Studio amid supply constraints and local AI frenzy
Apple quietly pulls high Unified Memory capacity Mac Studios and Mac minis from the Apple store as the memory crunch continues to affect consumer products.
Union rally causes Samsung fab production to plummet by 58% during night shift as workers demand up to $400,000 bonuses
The Samsung workers union could potentially cripple the company's production if management refuses to meet their demands.
After jumping 2,200% over the last twelve months, DDR4 spot prices fall 5%, the first decline in nearly a year — DDR5 pricing sees some relief in China channel market
DDR4 16Gb spot prices fell about 5% over the past month to roughly $74.10, ending nearly a year of consecutive monthly gains.
Memory will consume 30% of hyperscaler data center spending this year, a 4X increase over 2023
SemiAnalysis estimates on Thursday that memory will account for roughly 30% of total hyperscaler capex in calendar year 2026.
