JEDEC releases new SPHBM4 standard to slash AI memory costs — Narrow 512-bit interface enables dropping expensive interposers for organic substrates

The standard supports bump pitches greater than 90 µm and channel reaches up to 20 mm, which are two features that enable dropping the expensive interposer and using less-expensive organic substrate routing. However, get…

South Korea’s $880 billion chip and AI plan faces big power and water challenges — a single megacluster requires a quarter of Seoul’s total power demand

KEPCO and the government plan six LNG plants inside the Yongin complex, starting at about 3 GW and scaling toward 10 GW, to bridge the supply gap until the transmission network is finished. Both Samsung and SK hynix hold…

Chinese memory and storage firm expected to post more than 60,000% jump in profits due to exploding demand — Lexar owner Longsys forecasts nearly $1.5 billion p

bit_user So, if one year they barely broke even, turning a $1 profit, and the next year they made $1M of profit, their profits would’ve grown 1 Million Times!!! Even though maybe their revenues increased only slightly (o…

Hidden backdoor in Tenda routers goes unpatched as company ignores warnings from cybersecurity researchers — Chinese company’s firmware allows admin access with

Pending official Tenda firmware updates, CERT/CC recommends disabling remote web management wherever possible to prevent attackers from reaching the administrative interface over the internet. The organization also advis…

South Korea’s $880 billion chip and AI plan faces big power and water challenges — a single megacluster requires a quarter of Seoul’s total power demand

KEPCO and the government plan six LNG plants inside the Yongin complex, starting at about 3 GW and scaling toward 10 GW, to bridge the supply gap until the transmission network is finished. Both Samsung and SK hynix hold…