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SK Hynix is spending $38 billion to build two new chip fabs (techspot.com)

2026-08-08 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: capacity, hynix, memory

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9to5Mac Overtime 076: Native retro games on iPhone (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jeff Benjamin | tags: apple, benjamin, favorite

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Samsung debuts three next-generation memory technologies for AI data centers — zHBM, zNAND-O, and BV-NAND all rely on advanced wafer bonding technologies (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-06 | by Anton Shilov | tags: layer, logic, memory

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Samsung reveals next-gen memory with stacked HBM and 400-layer NAND (techspot.com)

2026-08-05 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: bandwidth, high, memory

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Samsung announces next-gen 3D memory when all we want is reasonably priced DDR5 (engadget.com)

2026-08-05 | by Steve Dent | tags: samsung, 3d memory, v-nand

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Kioxia and Sandisk demonstrate the world's highest-density 3D NAND flash — 332 active layers and up to 4,800 MT/s interface (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Anton Shilov | tags: kioxia, sandisk, bics10

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Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: vp8, nand gates, video codecs

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Memory maker SK hynix's profit rises 557% amid global shortage, expansion costs climb to $27 billion — shares slide despite mammoth earnings as expectations outpace reality and global AI selloffs continue (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-29 | by Luke James | tags: sk hynix, dram, nand

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SK Hynix second-quarter revenue more than triples — but misses estimates (cnbc.com)

2026-07-29 | by Jenny Lee | tags: sk hynix, ai servers, drama

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Qualcomm's chip price hikes could make phones, wearables, and laptops even pricier (techspot.com)

2026-07-25 | by Daniel Sims | tags: qualcomm, arm, drams

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Game Compressor can save you hundreds of GB across your game library — as storage prices remain high, utility leverages Windows' built-in LZX compression for substantial space savings (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-25 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: game compressor, windows lzx, steam

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The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left (theverge.com)

2026-07-23 | by Gadel Valle | tags: data centers, hyperscale, chatgpt

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Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-22 | by Jacopo Prisco | tags: medici family, florence, malaria

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Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-22 | by Alexandre De Santi | tags: amazon canopy bridges, brazil, wildlife conservation

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Adata chairman says DRAM shortage will last another 10 years — dismisses AI bubble talk until '2040 or 2050' (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-22 | by Luke James | tags: adata, tsmc, dram

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Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient” (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-07-21 | by Barath Raghavan | tags: genie coefficient, winograd, fernando flores

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NAND shortages could finally ease in 2027, but ADATA warns the DRAM crisis may last another 10 years (techspot.com)

2026-07-21 | by Rob Thubron | tags: nand flash, adata, drama shortages

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High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-15 | by Matthew S. Smith | tags: bandwidth, flash, high

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Character.AI wants a piece of the microdrama pie (theverge.com)

2026-07-09 | by Charles Pulliam-Moore | tags: anand, character, character ai

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Kioxia and Sandisk sample world's densest 3D NAND — new 332-Layer beats Samsung’s 400-Layer NAND (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-07 | by Anton Shilov | tags: density, kioxia, layer

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OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-06 | tags: boot, device, nand

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9to5Mac Overtime 071: A weird time for Apple (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-06 | by Jeff Benjamin | tags: apple, benjamin, fernando

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Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix shares tumble over 7% as chip rout spreads from Wall Street (cnbc.com)

2026-07-02 | by Jenny Lee | get Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 → | tags: samsung electronics, sk hynix, chip manufacturing

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Dive Into a New Sci-Fi World With an Exclusive Excerpt from ‘MAYA: Seed Takes Root,’ Read by Hugo Weaving (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-01 | get Sci-Fi Audiobook Collection → | tags: maya seed takes root, hugo weaving, anand gandhi

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Why Wall Street thinks US memory maker Micron is the next Nvidia (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-28 | by Kirsten Korosec | get Micron Memory Upgrade Kit → | tags: micron, nvidia, drams

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Expect a brutal price tag for one of the first Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro phones (androidauthority.com)

2026-06-26 | get Snapdragon 8 Gen 6 Phone → | tags: xiaomi, snapdragon 8 elite gen 6, xiaomi 18 pro

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Solidigm VP talks PCIe 6.0 SSDs, next-gen floating gate NAND, liquid cooled storage and more — Avi Shetty, VP of AI, Solutions & Market Enablement discusses the future of enterprise storage tech (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-26 | by Anton Shilov | get Samsung 980 Pro SSD → | tags: pcie 6.0, floating-gate nand, solidigm

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16-year-old SATA II SSD survives 1 petabyte of writes — 25x more than the drive's endurance rating (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-19 | by Zhiye Liu | get Samsung 870 EVO SSD → | tags: sata ii, samsung 860 evo, petabyte of writes

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A Perceptron in Age of Empires II (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-18 | by Adrian De Wynter | tags: age of empires ii, nand gate, scenario editor

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'The retail SSD market has almost disappeared,' says Silicon Motion exec — PC OEMs are buying third-party drives as direct NAND supply dries up (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-16 | by Anton Shilov | get Samsung 970 Evo SSD → | tags: ssd, silicon motion, nand