Goodbye Transistor? New Optical Switches Offer up to 1,000x Better Performance By Francisco Pires 'Optical Accelerators' ditch electricity, favoring light as an exchange medium.
TeamGroup Introduces New T-Force Vulcan DDR5 Memory Kits By Francisco Pires As manufacturers start jumping on the DDR5 bandwagon, TeamGroup has pre-empted some of its competitors by introducing the DDR5 T-Force Vulcan DRAM kits with operating frequencies up to 5,200 MHz.
Microsoft Job Posts May Point to In-House Surface Silicon Development By Francisco Pires Smoking guns aplenty, but the intentions behind them are unclear.
Intel Arc GPUs to Ship Without Cryptocurrency Mining Limitations By Francisco Pires Intel has confirmed that its ARC Alchemist series of GPUs will be free of any cryptocurrency mining handicaps when they launch in Q2 2022, marking a stance that's closer to AMD's than that of NVIDIA.
DRAM-Maker Expects Price Correction by End of 2021 By Francisco Pires Taiwan's Nanya Technology Corporation president Dr. Pei-Ing Lee expects DRAM pricing to undergo a downards correction by year end, compensating from recent DRAM pricing increases on a global level.
AMD Aims to Increase Chip Efficiency by 30x by 2025 (Updated) By Francisco Pires, Paul Alcorn Bold intentions, but AMD has been executing to perfection - mostly
6,000 RISC-V Cores on a Xilinx FPGA Break the CoreScore World Record By Francisco Pires A Xilinx FPGA with as many as 6,000 individual RISC-V SERV cores is now the world record holder for the most RISC-V cores on a single device.
Trick or Treat? CPU Cherry-Picker Silicon Lottery to Close October 31st By Francisco Pires Reduced overclocking headroom and liquid solder are partial culprits.
China's YMTC Starts Production of 128-Layer, 3D QLC NAND By Francisco Pires YMTC, one of the foremost NAND manufacturers in China, has announced the mass production status of its 128-layer, QLC-based 3D NAND.
Researchers Design Plans for Swarms of Tiny Flying Microchips, Promise Not to Use Them for Evil By Francisco Pires Electronic microchips gain new ability: flight.
PlayStation 5 SSD Performance May be More Forgiving Than Expected By Francisco Pires Cheaper drives seemingly provide near-identical performance to high-end options in FPS terms.
Researchers Create New CasFET Design for Next-Generation Transistors By Francisco Pires Employing techniques learned from quantum physics to increase the lifetime of silicon-based transistors.
Raja Koduri Explains Why Intel Outsourced GPU Manufacturing to TSMC (Updated) By Francisco Pires Intel's Raja Koduri explains the reasoning behind the choice to have TSMC manufacture Intel's ARC graphics chips. It's about production capacity.
IDC Report: Semiconductor Market to Grow by 17.3% in 2021, Overcapacity by 2023 By Francisco Pires The semiconductor market shows no signs of slowing down.
Sony Releases Aftermarket PS5 SSD Under the Nextorage Brand By Francisco Pires Sony has announced an SSD upgrade solution that's meant to be paired with the PS5 system. Under the Nextorage sub-brand, the "NEM-PA" M.2 NVMe SSD promises top-tier performance.
AMD Epyc 'Milan-X' Specifications Emerge in Leak By Francisco Pires Specifications have leaked for AMD's upcoming Epyc "Milan-X" chips, a Zen 3 refresh which packs in the company's 3D V-Cache approach to improving performance and power consumption.
Rare Earth Metal Pricing Skyrockets, May Result in Higher Electronics Pricing By Francisco Pires A report on the pricing evolution for several rare earth metals indispensable in electronics and semiconductor manufacturing paints a grim picture on consumer's purchase capabilities for the future.
Intel Is Reducing Server Chip Pricing in Attempt to Stem the AMD Tide: Report By Francisco Pires Intel is reportedly stemming AMD's onslaught onto the server market via price reductions, taking advantage of vertical integration and the general chip shortage to sway clients away from AMD.
Researchers Bake Malware Protection Directly Into SSDs By Francisco Pires An international team of researchers has developed a firmware solution to the ransomware problem, detecting and stopping malicious activity on your SSD before its contents are lost to criminals.
Quantum Computing: Triple Qubit Entanglement Achieved in Research Breakthrough By Francisco Pires Researchers with the Riken research center in Japan have successfully demonstrated entanglement on three qubits, up from its previously demonstrated maximum of two.
