While M.2 and NVMe SSDs continue to push the performance frontier, many users are working with hard drives. To address the upgrade and budget markets, many companies have ...
October 8, 2016 at 11:10 am by Samuel Wan
Last month, we reported that AMD had launched their new R3 SSDs quietly and without much fanfare. As we noted the new R3 drives were budget oriented, which was interesting as ...
May 17, 2016 at 9:00 am by Samuel Wan
Silicon has been with us for many decades but will need a replacement. For NAND storage, it has become increasingly difficult to progress by shrinking the process. The chief ...
April 25, 2016 at 9:30 am by Samuel Wan
After a 4-year love affair with SandForce controllers, Intel has announced a new series of consumer and enterprise client SSDs that utilize new controllers. Dubbed the 540s ...
April 4, 2016 at 10:20 am by Samuel Wan
For the upcoming graphics generation, both Nvidia and AMD are set to use HBM2 for their upcoming Pascal and Polaris graphics cards. While Samsung has already revealed that ...
March 9, 2016 at 9:00 am by Samuel Wan
We all have a lot of chips inside our systems, but companies such as AMD and Nvidia rarely show us what that looks like and we have to rely on third-parties such as ChipWorks ...
November 5, 2015 at 1:39 pm by Bohs Hansen
Nvidia’s Pascal may not arrive in volume for quite in a while according to the latest report. According to BusinessKorea, both Samsung and SK Hynix are set to provide ...
September 23, 2015 at 11:47 am by Samuel Wan
With the many stories about SSD price parity and the ever increasing size of SSDs, one imagines that NAND production will have to increase dramatically to fuel such gains. ...
August 27, 2015 at 12:30 pm by Samuel Wan
AMD made history earlier this month by being the first major GPU vendor to ship HBM with their top end Fury and Fury X graphics cards. Nvidia however, has been absent so far, ...
July 14, 2015 at 9:57 am by Samuel Wan
SK Hynix has mostly been in the news lately thanks to HBM memory, but we shouldn’t forget that they make a lot of other memory based products and one of them is eMMC ...
July 11, 2015 at 5:00 pm by Bohs Hansen
A couple of months ago Toshiba and SK hynix settled their disagreements and announced a closer collaboration between the two. The next step in this process has been made with ...
February 9, 2015 at 10:58 am by Bohs Hansen
Toshiba has reached a settlement with SK Hynix in connection of a civil lawsuit that Toshiba initiated against SK Hynix at the Tokyo District Court on March 13. Under ...
December 23, 2014 at 1:43 am by Bohs Hansen
Our world of technology is going through some changes at the moment, some even call it a revolution. We’re finally starting to see some improvements in the display ...
October 2, 2014 at 3:20 pm by Bohs Hansen
Despite competition between SSD vendors being fiercer than ever, and set to get fiercer, we could still see price rises on NAND based products. According ...
June 21, 2014 at 3:09 pm by Ryan Martin
