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DDR4 became the generation moving this month, with four of five tracked kits up between 8.5% and 22.8%. The one DDR4 chip price that fell drew no clear buying interest.
Read MoreTL;DR Diamond Rapids tops out at 256 P-cores, double the 128 in today’s Xeon 6980P. Intel detailed it at Hot Chips on 24 August; it ships in the second half of 2027. Hyperthreading is gone, so 256 cores means 256 threads — the same count the 128-core 6980P already delivers. SMT returns in the next…
Read MoreServer DRAM prices are still rising, but multi-year contracts mean the next increase will not hit every buyer equally. Contract coverage, procurement channel and configuration flexibility increasingly determine an organization’s exposure.
Read MoreSamsung reportedly raised some 4nm foundry prices by as much as 15%. The overlooked reason is HBM4: its logic base die also consumes Samsung’s SF4 foundry capacity.
Read MoreTL;DR Agents do need more CPU than chatbots did, but no published study shows the right number is one CPU per GPU. In real traffic, the CPU work of running code and searching databases took as long as the model itself in over a quarter of requests. The chips being sold for this are ordinary…
Read MoreA petabyte in a single drive has been the storage industry’s next round number for a while. As of this summer, enough of it is on the public record to reconstruct. At FMS 2026, Kioxia and Sandisk unveiled their 10th-generation QLC 3D flash memory: 332 layers, more than 37 Gb/mm², and up to 60% denser…
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