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[News] SK hynix Introduces Data Center SSD Built on 238-high 4D NAND, Targeting Mass Production in 2025

With the advent of the AI era, customer demand for high-performance NAND solutions such as SSDs for data centers, as well as ultra-fast DRAM chips including high bandwidth memory (HBM), is growing. In line with this trend, SK hynix has …

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[News] China Announced Two Breakthroughs in Semiconductor Chip Sector

Recently, China has set two records in semiconductor chip sector: first, it mass-produced the world’s first 28nm embedded RRAM image quality adjustment chip; second, it developed the world’s first 16-bit quantum bit semiconductor microprocessor chip. Mass Production of the World’s …

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[News] Venturing into Silicon Photonics, AMD Reportedly Seeks Partnerships in Taiwan

As silicon photonics has become a key technology in the AI era, semiconductor giants, including Intel and TSMC, have joined the battlefield. Now another tech giant has engaged in the war, while U.S. chip giant AMD is reportedly seeking silicon …

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[News] AMD Unifies RDNA and CDNA into UDNA Architecture, Aiming to Compete with NVIDIA’s CUDA

According to a report from tom’s Hardware, Jack Huynh, AMD’s senior vice president and general manager of its Computing and Graphics Business Group, announced at IFA 2024 in Berlin that AMD will unify its consumer microarchitecture “RDNA” and data center …

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[News] Apple Officially Debuts iPhone 16 with AI Features, but Yet to Announce an AI partner in China

Apple’s 2024 fall event officially took place earlier, highlighting the launch of the new iPhone 16 series, along with other products like the Apple Watch Series 10 and AirPods 4. According to CEO Tim Cook, the next generation of iPhone has …

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