2024

Western Digital Introduces 4 TB microSDUC, 8 TB SDUC, and 16 TB External SSDs

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Western Digital’s BiCS8 218-layer 3D NAND is being put to good use in a wide range of client and enterprise platforms, including WD’s upcoming Gen 5 client SSDs and 128 TB-class datacenter SSD. On the external storage front, the company demonstrated four different products: for card-based media, 4 TB microSDUC and 8 TB SDUC cards…

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Nvidia RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 could launch as early as this month so don’t upgrade your gaming PC just yet!

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If you’ve been waiting to upgrade your gaming PC I’d suggest waiting a little bit longer, as a new rumor suggests that Nvidia could launch its next-gen RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 graphics cards in a matter of weeks.The rumor comes from Chinese website Benchlife – and reported by PC Gamer – which says (translated)…

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AMD’s next-gen Radeon RX 8000 graphics card lineup expected to feature at least four new GPUs

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AMD’s new graphics cards are coming in hot, but the latest leak is sure to be a mixed bag for PC gamers – heavily depending on how much money you like to pour into your custom PC builds.With Nvidia still dominating the high-end of the battle for the best graphics cards, AMD senior vice president…

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T-Mobile’s free iPhone 16 Pro deal may have leaked early

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Almost everything about the iPhone 16 leaked repeatedly in the past few months, with one big exception. We hardly got any iPhone 16 price leaks, which is actually good news. The lack of rumors warning of imminent price hikes suggests that Apple will keep the iPhone 15 price structure in place for another year.There is…

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Kioxia Demonstrates RAID Offload Scheme for NVMe Drives

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At FMS 2024, Kioxia had a proof-of-concept demonstration of their proposed a new RAID offload methodology for enterprise SSDs. The impetus for this is quite clear: as SSDs get faster in each generation, RAID arrays have a major problem of maintaining (and scaling up) performance. Even in cases where the RAID operations are handled by…

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A new leak might have revealed the top-tier GPU in the RDNA 4 line will be the AMD RX 8700 XT

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Another day in the tech world with even more rumors to show for it, and this new batch regarding the oft-discussed AMD RDNA 4 is quite delicious if proven to be true. It seems that, according to a brand new leak delivered to us by well-known hardware leaker Golden Pig Upgrade (reported by VideoCardz), the top…

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Rapidus Wants to Offer Fully Automated Packaging for 2nm Fab to Cut Chip Lead Times

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One of the core challenges that Rapidus will face when it kicks off volume production of chips on its 2nm-class process technology in 2027 is lining up customers. With Intel, Samsung, and TSMC all slated to offer their own 2nm-class nodes by that time, Rapidus will need some kind of advantage to attract customers away…

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China dominates AI and advanced analytics research

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The Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s (ASPI) latest technology tracker paints a bleak picture of the artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics strengths of Western countries compared with China. Among the metrics the tracker published is a graph showing research papers published between 2019 and 2023, which it used to rank national research performance in advanced…

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Silicon Motion Demonstrates Flexible Data Placement on MonTitan Gen 5 Enterprise SSD Platform

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At FMS 2024, the technological requirements from the storage and memory subsystem took center stage. Both SSD and controller vendors had various demonstrations touting their suitability for different stages of the AI data pipeline – ingestion, preparation, training, checkpointing, and inference. Vendors like Solidigm have different types of SSDs optimized for different stages of the…

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Intel has reportedly canceled Beast Lake and its follow-up – and I’m gutted it’s killed off my dream gaming CPU

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It seems Intel could have canceled its rumored Beast Lake processors, including a Beast Lake Refresh CPU that could’ve been a dream chip for PC gamers, as well as the whole ‘Royal Core’ project those CPUs were major parts of.Moore’s Law is Dead (MLID) on YouTube has a new video about Beast Lake, with info…

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