Micron is on a tear, it seems. The company recently announced the world’s first “Gen 2” version of its third-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM3) that offers increased bandwidth and density over existing technology, Now it’s showing off a roadmap that includes some compelling numbers for the future of DDR5 and GDDR7 …
Read More »Micron Memory Shortages
If you were considering upgrading your gaming rig to Intel’s new Alder Lake platform, and dropping in some DDR5 memory modules, memory manufacturer Micron has some bad news for you. The company confirmed in an earnings call recently that production of the next-gen memory modules is quite difficult at this …
Read More »Micron Introduces HBMnext
Micron has made a pair of announcements around next-generation memory technologies, HBMnext and GDDR6X. The latter will debut with the upcoming RTX 3090, which will offer 12GB of onboard RAM. There has been talk that Nvidia might bump high-end RAM capacities (and there’s no mention of an RTX 3090 …
Read More »Micron launches reconfigurable 5100 Series enterprise SSDs sporting 3D TLC NAND
Micron has announced that it will deploy triple level cell (TLC) NAND in its 5100 Series, marking the first time any company has used TLC NAND in an enterprise product. Typically, enterprise and many consumer drives are based on multi-level cell (MLC) NAND, which stores two bits of information per …
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