Kicking off our coverage of TSMC's tech symposium, we have the marquee reveal of the event: TSMC's A16 node. The follow-up to N2, the 1.6nm node will launch in late 2026 and introduce backside power delivery, improving perf by 8-10% or power by 15-20%
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Report: Seagate & Western Digital Hike HDD Prices Amid Surge In Demand
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Ahead of its mid-year launch, Qualcomm is expanding the Snapdragon X SoC family. Now totaling 4 chips, the launch-day stack includes 3 Elite SKUs, and the new Snapdragon X Plus, a lighter 10 core version that should still deliver plenty of performance
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Seagate: Mozaic 3+ HAMR Hard Drives Can Last Over Seven Years
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Samsung Starts Mass Production of 9th Generation V-NAND: 1Tb 3D TLC NAND
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Lexar's SL500 PSSD integrates Silicon Motion's SM2320 UFD controller & YMTC's 128L 3D TLC NAND - different from the usual Micron / BiCS NAND pairing for the controller.

Ganesh analyzes the characteristics of this unique combination
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This morning we're taking a quick look at Eurocom's hulking 780 Watt laptop power adapter. Intended to drive the most powerful of desktop replacement-class laptops and gaming systems, Eurocom's adapter is as ample as a laptop power supply can be
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JEDEC Extends DDR5 Memory Specification to 8800 MT/s, Adds Anti-Rowhammer Features
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SK Hynix and TSMC Team Up for HBM4 Development
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AMD Announces Ryzen Pro 8000 and Ryzen Pro 8040 Series: Commercial Desktop Gets AI
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TSMC Posts Q1'24 Results: 3nm Revenue Share Drops Steeply, but HPC Share Rises
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ASML Patterns First Wafer Using High-NA EUV Tool, Ships Second High-NA Scanner
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Intel and Sandia National Laboratories Roll Out 1.15B Neuron “Hala Point” Neuromorphic Research System - Largest Neuromorphic System In the World
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Samsung Unveils 10.7Gbps LPDDRX5 Memory - The Fastest Yet
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This morning we're taking a look at Iceberg Thermal's IceFLOE Oasis 360mm AIO Cooler. With a wallet-friendly price tag of $90 IceFLOE puts up good performance while offering a dash of ARGB lighting, rivaling some of the better coolers on the market today
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Samsung to Receive $6.4 Billion Under CHIPS Act to Build $40 Billion Fab in Texas
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NVIDIA Intros RTX A1000 and RTX A400: Entry-Level ProViz Cards Get Ray Tracing and Tensor Cores
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SK hynix's Tube T31 stick SSD integrates a DRAM-equipped BC711 NVMe SSD & JMicron JMS583 bridge into a thumb drive. Such a combination presents design challenges in the UFD form-factor.

Ganesh evaluates the 1TB SKU to analyze SK hynix's approach
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Corsair Enters Workstation Memory Market with WS Series XMP+EXPO DDR5 RDIMMs
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Western Digital Previews 4 TB SD Card: World's Highest-Capacity
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