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MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Suprim X Review – The Biggest Graphics Card in the World

Introduction MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Suprim X graphics is the company’s new premium custom-design implementation of the RTX 3080 “Ampere.” With this, the company is debuting its new “Suprim” brand extension, which is positioned a notch above the Gaming X Trio line of graphics cards by MSI. It’s likely that Suprim X is the new… Read more

TechInsights Outlines the Future of 3D NAND Flash

Home News Joengdong Choe, Senior Technical Fellow at TechInsights, Inc., gave two presentations during the 2020 Flash Memory Summit detailing the future of 3D NAND and other emerging memories. TechInsights is known for its analysis and reverse engineering of multiple semiconductor products including flash. Choe’s presentation this year included a 2014-2023 roadmap along with some… Read more

Phison’s New PCIe 4.0 Controller Tested: 7.4 GBps of Potential

Home Features (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Just as the CPU is the brains of your computer, the SSD is the brains behind your storage drive. Though many companies produce SSDs, most don’t make their own controllers. Phison is a leader in the SSD controller space and one of only a few companies that produce the… Read more

Lexar NM700 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD Review

Introduction Lexar has made a name for itself in the portable storage market—they are very well known for their SD cards and USB sticks, so it’s natural for them to expand into other areas of flash storage, like consumer SSDs. Lexar was founded as a subsidiary of Micron, but was sold to Longsys in 2017… Read more

Huawei: US government allows chip shipments from Qualcomm

The US company Qualcomm is allowed to sell some of its 4G mobile processors to the mobile phone manufacturer Huawei. Qualcomm has confirmed this to the Reuters news agency. A special license from the US government allows Qualcomm to do limited business with Huawei despite the trade embargo. However, according to Reuters, this license only… Read more

TSMC Places Massive EUV Tools Order to Boost Capacity

Home News (Image credit: ASML) Earlier this year, TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.) said that it had deployed around 50% of all extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography tools installed and run worldwide, which means that it uses more EUV machines than any other company in the industry. According to a Digitimes report, TSMC plans to stay… Read more

Sabrent Rocket Q4 M.2 NVMe SSD Review: PCIe Gen4 Speed at Gen3 Pricing

Our Verdict Sporting a PCIe 4.0 x4 interface and the latest quad-plane QLC flash from Micron, the Rocket Q4 has the goods to deliver performance, and it comes with competitive pricing. For Aesthetic appeal High performance and efficiency Up to 5-years warranty Against 1-year warranty without registration Slow write speed after write cache fills Low… Read more

Micron, here is the 176-layer 3D NAND: higher capacity and better performance for SSDs

Micron unveiled the first 3D NAND a 176 layer in the world, a new step forward in terms of performance and density for NAND flash memories. We will see it on board SSDs for PCs, starting with Crucial solutions, but also in other sectors: servers, 5G equipment and automotive. by Manolo De Agostini published 10… Read more

Micron Now Shipping 176-Layer 3D TLC NAND Flash

Home News While we were just getting used to 96-Layer flash becoming commonplace and over 100-Layer flash from Samsung and SK hynix is just starting to enter the market, Micron announced its next-generation 176-layer replacement gate flash is now in volume production and shipping, setting a new high for layer counts. (Image credit: Micron) Micron’s… Read more

Patriot Viper Steel Series 3600MHz 64GB (2x32GB) Review

Luke Hill 5 hours ago Featured Tech Reviews, Memory, Reviews The rise in CPU performance that we have seen from mainstream, dual-channel optimised processors in the current generations has paved the way for higher capacity two-stick RAM kits. Offering 64GB of DDR4 capacity via a pair of 32GB DIMMs, Patriot’s Viper Steel kit sports a… Read more

300mm Fab Spend Skyrocketing: 38 New Fabs Expected by 2024

Home News (Image credit: TSMC) Demand for advanced chips has been increasing gradually in the recent years and is expected to snowball faster in the coming years, due to trends like 5G, artificial intelligence, high-performance computing and edge computing. A report from SEMI, an association of chip design and manufacturing supply chain companies, announced this… Read more

PCI Express 6.0, complete draft ready: specifications finalized in 2021

The PCI-SIG consortium announced that PCI Express 6.0 has reached version 0.7: the draft has been completed, and the electrical specifications have been validated with test chips. The specification will be finalized over the next year, but there will be a wait for the first concrete products. by Manolo De Agostini published 05 November 2020… Read more

Acer Swift 3X test – The premiere of the Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics card

A few weeks ago, Intel announced 11 generation Tiger Lake processors for laptops based on the Willow Cove architecture and lithography 10 nm SuperFin. With the new cores, integrated Intel Iris Xe Graphics also entered the game, making it the first product to take advantage of the rebuilt Xe architecture. For the manufacturer, it is… Read more

Western Digital WD_Black AN1500 in the test: successful PCIe4 alternative

Page 1: Western Digital WD_Black AN 1500 in the test: successful PCIe4 alternative As Specialist in mass storage, Western Digital comes with the WD_Black SN 850 already comparatively late for the PCIe4 party. But in addition to the announcement of the SN 730 WD surprised especially with the announcement of the WD_Black AN 1500, an… Read more

These are the fastest SSD controllers right now: 7.3 GB / s broken – update

Idriz Velghe, Björn Meijer 24 October 2020 11: 47 37 Comments Preface At the beginning of September Sabrent showed the Rocket 4 Plus. It is the successor to the manufacturer’s first pcie 4.0 ssd, which was released a month earlier. Thanks to the new PS 5018 – E 18 – controller from Phison, the SSD… Read more