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SK Hynix is reportedly discussing options with Intel to produce memory chips in the US for the first time, possibly by leasing space at Intel's delayed Ohio fab or forming a joint venture involving cloud companies. SK Hynix has confirmed it is exploring new production sites but says no decisions have been made, and Intel declined to confirm details beyond ongoing investment in the Ohio project.
Researchers studying the heavy-fermion superconductor UTe2 examined whether a newly observed memory effect—where past current pulses alter later superconducting behavior—could simply be an artifact of Joule heating from the applied current pulses. By analyzing temperature during pulse protocols and testing how the effect scales with current amplitude, duration, and especially the speed at which current is switched off, they found the memory effect strengthens with faster relaxation rates, which actually reduces total energy deposited, undermining a simple heating explanation.
An analysis traces the evolution of memory allocation from stack-based schemes to dynamic linked-list heaps, garbage collection, and jemalloc's 2006 introduction of 'arenas' for NUMA and multi-core memory management. It notes that standard malloc() implementations serialize concurrent allocation requests, causing multithreaded applications to slow down rather than scale as processor counts increase.
A hardware tinkerer combined a cheap unlocked 4G wireless hotspot, a spare Clicks iPhone keyboard, and an Adafruit Sharp memory display to build a standalone texting device. The project relies on the open-source Openstick effort, which lets Linux replace the Android software running on these budget modems, exposing GPIO and other hardware features needed for the build.
A mouse study led by Cambridge researcher Menna Clatworthy found that immune cells activated during intestinal infections, such as those caused by Citrobacter rodentium bacteria and the parasitic worm Schistosoma mansoni, travel to the meninges surrounding the brain. There, the cells take up long-term residence and mount a faster, stronger response when the same infection recurs more than a month later, indicating they retain a memory of the original illness.
A newly published technical handbook explains FlashAttention, the exact attention algorithm that speeds up Transformer models by minimizing memory traffic rather than reducing computation. It walks through the standard attention implementation's repeated reads and writes to GPU high-bandwidth memory, then details how tiling, online softmax, and recomputation eliminate most of that overhead across FlashAttention-1 through FlashAttention-4.
Micron unveiled a one-time NT$1 million (~$31,650) cash bonus for Taiwan staff as part of a larger rewards package that guarantees at least NT$1.7 million per worker, calling it the largest such payout in company history. Unions representing roughly 10,000 of Micron's 15,000 Taiwan employees rejected the offer, dismissing it as a distraction and instead demanding a 15% profit-sharing arrangement tied to the company's AI-driven earnings surge.
Newegg is offering a high-end PC parts bundle combining AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 CPU, an 8TB Samsung 9100 Pro SSD, an MSI X870E Gaming Plus WiFi motherboard, and 32GB of V-Color DDR5-6000 memory for $2,999, down from a combined retail price of $4,288. The deal also throws in a free Cooler Master 240mm AIO cooler and a copy of Onimusha with qualifying AMD purchases. Buyers still need to add a case, power supply, and graphics card to complete the build.
HP has begun taking orders for its ZGX Fury AI workstation, a system based on Nvidia's GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip pairing a Blackwell Ultra GPU with a 72-core Grace CPU. The machine offers 748GB of unified, coherent memory and up to 20 petaFLOPS of FP4 compute, and ships alongside a new partnership between HP, Red Hat, and Nvidia to run Red Hat AI Factory software on the hardware.
Comparing a 256GB SSD to a 1TB hard drive isn't a simple capacity contest, since SSDs retrieve data electronically from flash memory while HDDs rely on spinning platters and moving read/write heads, making SSDs significantly faster for booting and running programs. Whether 256GB is enough depends heavily on usage: it suits light users who rely on cloud storage, while heavy local file storage, creative work or gaming may require 512GB, 1TB or more.
Zep, a Y Combinator W24 startup that provides agent memory infrastructure for enterprises including Samsung, Zscaler and NASDAQ 100 companies, is hiring a solo marketing lead to run B2B demand generation using AI agents instead of a traditional team. The role covers search and answer engine visibility, blog and website publication, email and social campaigns, reporting directly to founder Daniel. Zep also maintains Graphiti, an open-source context graph framework with over 30,000 GitHub stars.
Shenzhen Suqiao Intelligent Technology, an established Chinese OEM/ODM, is listing a customized GeForce RTX 5090 with 96GB of memory—triple the stock 32GB—for $3,888 on Alibaba, undercutting the standard U.S. price by roughly 35%. The listing contains dubious specs like GDDR6X memory and 14 Gbps speeds, raising questions about accuracy, though the underlying GB202 chip used in Nvidia's 96GB RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell suggests such a memory configuration is technically feasible.