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China’s YMTC aims to become the world’s largest NAND maker by the end of 2027, report says — company plans to overtake Samsung and SK hynix

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YMTC’s listing turns that position into a funding mechanism. Margins earned at the top of the memory cycle are already paying for domestic tool development, and the IPO adds a capital source that sits outside the reach o…

Hot Chips 2026: Samsung makes LPDDR5X smart with logic unit in memory — LPDDR5X-PIM is 3.01x faster than LPDDR5X in AI inference with 8x the bandwidth

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Once the calculation is done, a PIMX_WR command transfers the output data back to the DRAM bank. Samsung noted there doesn’t need to be a 1:1 relationship between reads and writes, but it’s useful for this example. With …

Hot Chips 2026: OpenAI’s Jalapeño AI ASIC unpacked — accelerator developed using AI achieves efficiency and throughput gains against power-hungry Blackwell

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To explain how it works, let us compare OpenAI’s and Nvidia’s approaches. Nvidia’s standard system-level decomposition is primarily two phases: prefill and decode. Prefill is generally compute-bound (which is why Nvidia …

Rockstar releases statement after a week of GTA VI leaks, avoids mentioning leaker’s demands — says that gameplay leaks have been ‘heartbreaking for our team’

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“It would be an understatement to say that having videos of Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay leak in this way has been heartbreaking for our team, and this is obviously not how we intended for you to see the game after all t…