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Taiwan Chip Packaging Hub Halts Production After COVID-19 Outbreak

Home News (Image credit: King Yuan Electronics) King Yuan Electronics, a top 10 outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) contractor in the world, announced Friday that it is halting production for two days after several employees were tested positive for COVID-19. A two-day shutdown shouldn’t devastate the market, but amid an ongoing chip shortage — largely stemming… Read more

Micron Demos DDR5 RDIMM, Expands DDR5 Technology Enablement Program

Home News (Image credit: Micron) Micron has showcased its DDR5 registered memory modules for servers and revealed that its DDR5 technology enablement program (TEP) has reached a milestone of 250 members from over 100 companies. Micron are on track to ship DDR5 DRAM ICs and memory modules later this year when the appropriate platforms become… Read more

Micron Ships First 1-Alpha DRAM: Extreme Density Without EUV

Home News (Image credit: Micron) Micron said on Tuesday that it had started volume production of DRAM chips using its latest 1α (1-alpha) process technology. Initially the company will use the new node for LPDDR4X and 8Gb DDR4 memory ICs, but the company will eventually use the new fabrication tech to produce all of its… Read more

Micron Unveils PCIe 4.0 2450 and 3400-Series SSDs With 176-Layer 3D NAND

Home News (Image credit: Micron) Micron has introduced two new families of SSDs based on its latest 176-layer 3D TLC NAND. The new 2450- and 3400-series SSDs feature a PCIe 4.0 interface and are aimed at different classes of PCs and price points. Micron says the drives are in production and will be available at… Read more

Micron Unveils PCIe 4.0 2450 and 3400-Series SSDs With 176-Layer 3D NAND

Home News (Image credit: Micron) Micron has introduced two new families of SSDs based on its latest 176-layer 3D TLC NAND. The new 2405- and 3400-series SSDs feature a PCIe 4.0 interface and are aimed at different classes of PCs and price points. Micron says the drives are in production and will be available at… Read more

Marvell’s New PCIe 5.0 SSD Controllers Have 14 TB/s of Throughput

Home News (Image credit: Marvell) Marvell has introduced the industry’s first SSD controllers for NVMe 1.4b-compliant drives that will feature a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface. The Bravera SC5 controllers are designed primarily for bandwidth and performance-hungry servers used in cloud data centers. They will provide up to 14 TB/s throughput as well as up to… Read more

Taiwan SSD Makers to Sell Drives Directly to Chia Miners

Home News (Image credit: Micron) The ongoing Chia coin craze has already increased prices of high-capacity HDDs and SSDs in retail quite significantly. Since demand for storage devices is not going to get any lower, Taiwan-based makers of SSDs are developing special-purpose SSDs for Chia mining that they plan to sell directly to miners. Furthermore, drive makers… Read more

Phison PS5018-E18 Controller With Micron 176L TLC Preview: Unleashing the Beast

Home Features (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Page 1 of 3: Features and Specifications Phison’s PS5018-E18 is a high-performance PCIe 4.0×4 NVMe SSD controller that has flooded the market in many of the newest and fastest-performing SSDs. It offers up very fast sequential performance but has been outshined in random responsiveness by top picks like Samsung’s… Read more

Phison E18 + Micron 176-Layer NAND Preview – Faster than Samsung 980 Pro

Introduction If you’ve been following the SSD space at least a little bit, you definitely know Phison. An SSD controller vendor that started with low-performance budget chips, Phison has improved tremendously since and is now offering solutions that rival the fastest controllers available. Phison was founded in 2000 in Taiwan and is shipping hundreds of… Read more

Et Tu, RAM? Computer Memory Price Hikes Are Coming

Home News (Image credit: Micron) High demand for PCs and, importantly, desktop PCs has already resulted in increased graphics card, PSU, HDD, and SSD pricing, but apparently, now DRAM is getting even more expensive, too. According to a new report from Taiwan, memory prices are set for double-digit growth in the coming months. Contract memory… Read more

ADATA SE900G Portable SSD 2 TB Review – USB at 20 Gbps

Introduction ADATA is Taiwan’s largest manufacturer of flash storage and DRAM memory for computers. They have been at the forefront of SSD development for many years, bringing us famous SSDs like the SX8200, SX900, and S510. Today we are reviewing the ADATA SE900G, which is the company’s latest portable SSD. It is one of the… Read more

Adata SE900G Portable RGB SSD Review: RGB Invades Portables

Our Verdict Adata SE900G is a speedy USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 portable SSD that features a dazzling RGB design but lacks the features and warranty support that we see with other SSDs. For + Competitive performance + Stylish RGB lighting + Competitive pricing Against – 3-year warranty – Lacks AES 256-bit encryption – Lacks IP… Read more

SSDs Outsell HDDs in Unit Sales 3:2: 99 Million Vs. 64 Million in Q1

Home News (Image credit: Micron) Solid-state drives have a number of advantages when compared to hard drives, which include performance, dimensions, and reliability. Yet, for quite a while, HDDs offered a better balance between capacity, performance, and cost, which is why they outsold SSDs in terms of unit sales. Things have certainly changed for client… Read more

Blackouts in Taiwan: Foundries & DRAM Makers Unaffected, Chip Packagers Halt Ops

Home News (Image credit: Future) Taiwan started a rotational electricity blackout across the country on Thursday following a major incident at a coal-fired power plant in southern Taiwan that caused its shutdown. The outages have not affected TSMC, the world’s largest contract maker of chips, other foundries, and DRAM makers. However, chip packaging houses had… Read more

Chia Crypto Plotting Can Destroy an SSD in Weeks

Home News (Image credit: Micron) Unlike Bitcoin and Ethereum mining, Chia cryptocurrency farming does not require expensive accelerators or graphics cards. Yet, it still may be quite an expensive way of getting cryptocurrency as it requires fast SSDs to create plots and high-capacity HDDs to store those plots. Furthermore, since consumer-grade SSDs are not designed for write-intensive… Read more