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Hard drives aren't done yet: Western Digital is pushing HDD performance toward SSD territory (techspot.com)

2026-02-04 | get Hard drive → | tags: allows, allows multiple, approach

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Western Digital doubles the performance of hard drives with dual-actuator High-Bandwidth, with path to 8X performance increase — Power-Optimized HDDs will reduce power by 20 percent (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-03 | by Anton Shilov | get Hard Drive → | tags: bandwidth, digital, hdds

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Intel is co-developing new Z-Angle Memory to compete with HBM used in AI data centers — vertically-stacked memory touts 2 to 3x more capacity, greater bandwidth, and half the power consumption (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-03 | by Jon Martindale | get Memory → | tags: bandwidth, intel, memory

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Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX with plans for space-based AI infrastructure (techspot.com)

2026-02-03 | get SpaceX AI Infrastructure → | tags: bandwidth, bandwidth links, centers

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Microsoft's Maia AI chip ambitions might include an exclusive SK Hynix HBM3e memory deal (techspot.com)

2026-01-30 | get Maia → | tags: according reports, allegedly, bandwidth

36.

ANN v3: 200ms p99 query latency over 100B vectors (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-21 | get TensorFlow → | tags: bandwidth, memory, search

37.

Analyzing Washington's new AI accelerator export rules — smaller manufacturers suffer while Nvidia and AMD will reap the rewards (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-15 | by Anton Shilov | get GPU → | tags: bandwidth, china, nvidia

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U.S. posts official H200 and MI325X AI GPU export rules to China, but with plenty of caveats — a string of requirments greatly limits the total number of GPUs that can be shipped to China (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-14 | by Anton Shilov | get GPU → | tags: bandwidth, china, hardware

39.

Former Google CEO Plans To Singlehandedly Fund a Hubble Telescope Replacement (slashdot.org)

2026-01-08 | by Posted | get Space Telescope → | tags: investment, larger, schmidt

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Former Google CEO plans to singlehandedly fund a Hubble telescope replacement (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-08 | get Telescope Replacement → | tags: schmidt, space, telescope

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The first privately funded space-based telescope is in the works (theverge.com)

2026-01-08 | by Stevie Bonifield | get Telescope → | tags: array, lazuli, schmidt

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Samsung says RAM costs will likely lead to price hikes soon (engadget.com)

2026-01-07 | get Memory → | tags: advertisement, announcement, bandwidth

43.

iPadOS 26.2 and macOS 26.2 unlock faster Wi-Fi on select devices (9to5mac.com)

2026-01-05 | by Chance Miller | get iPad → | tags: apple, bandwidth, macs

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Nvidia launches Vera Rubin NVL72 AI supercomputer at CES — promises up to 5x greater inference performance and 10x lower cost per token than Blackwell, coming 2H 2026 (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-05 | by Jeffrey Kampman | get Nvidia GPU → | tags: bandwidth, nvidia, rack

45.

Show HN: BusterMQ, Thread-per-core NATS server in Zig with io_uring (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-01 | get NATS → | tags: bandwidth, bandwidth generation, dispatch

46.

Nvidia GB10's Memory Subsystem, from the CPU Side (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-31 | by Chester Lam | get Graphics Card → | tags: bandwidth, cache, cluster

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Samsung introduces SOCAMM2 LPDDR5X memory module for AI data centers — new standard set to offer reduced power consumption and double the bandwidth versus DDR5 RDIMMs (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-19 | by Luke James | get Memory Module → | tags: bandwidth, lower, lpddr

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Show HN: TinyPDF – 3kb pdf library (70x smaller than jsPDF) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-18 | get TinyPDF → | tags: color, margin, text

49.

North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-18 | by Mark Tyson | get Smartphone → | tags: amazon, dprk, north

50.

Show HN: High-Performance Wavelet Matrix for Python, Implemented in Rust (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-17 | get Wavelet Matrix → | tags: bit width, index, list

51.

Show HN: Deterministic PCIe Diagnostics for GPUs on Linux (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-16 | get GPU → | tags: bandwidth, link, nvml

52.

Industry preps new 'cheap' HBM4 memory spec with narrow interface, but it isn't a GDDR killer — JEDEC's new SPHBM4 spec weds HBM4 performance and lower costs to enable higher capacity (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-13 | by Anton Shilov | get HBM4 → | tags: bandwidth, capacity, compared

53.

The Silicon Valley Campaign to Win Trump Over on AI Regulation (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2025-12-10 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: ai midterm, approach, approach ai

54.

HBM undergoes major architectural shakeup as TSMC and GUC detail HBM4, HBM4E and C-HBM4E — 3nm base dies to enable 2.5x performance boost with speeds of up to 12.8GT/s by 2027 (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-02 | by Anton Shilov | get HBM → | tags: bandwidth, base, base dies

55.

Evaluating Uniform Memory Access Mode on AMD's Turin (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-27 | by Chester Lam | get Memory → | tags: bandwidth, epyc, latency

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Show HN: A WordPress plugin that rewrites image URLs for near-zero-cost delivery (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-26 | get Image URL Replacer → | tags: account, bandwidth, cache

57.

Strix Halo's Memory Subsystem: Tackling iGPU Challenges (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-18 | by Chester Lam | get Halo GPU → | tags: bandwidth, cache, halo

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SK hynix merges DRAM and NAND into a single package for faster AI performance (techspot.com)

2025-11-11 | get NAND Flash → | tags: accelerating, according multiple, aimed

59.

Dispersion-engineered multipass optical parametric amplification (feeds.nature.com)

2025-11-05 | by Nägele | get Optical Parametric Amplifier → | tags: amplification, bandwidth, concept

60.

Evaluating the Infinity Cache in AMD Strix Halo (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Chester Lam | get Microsoft Surface Pro → | tags: amd, bandwidth, cache