Samsung's HBM4 memory has reportedly achieved a high-end yield rate of nearly 80%, which has boosted the company's confidence.
Samsung has had to go through some major hurdles in the HBM segment in a bid to compete with SK Hynix and Micron. The company has spent multiple generations trying to design and validate its memory with multiple partners, but the progress has been slow and steady. Now, Samsung has reportedly hit a milestone in its HBM roadmap, which includes the HBM4 memory.
NVIDIA's Vera Rubin racks feature an unprecedented amount of memory, and that comes with a hefty price tag, as disclosed in the "Bill of Materials".
Vera Rubin racks are crazy expensive, and while one would expect to pay a premium for these next-generation enterprise powerhouses, the main cost driver is, unsurprisingly, the memory & that accounts for 62% of the cost of the Vera Rubin platform alone.
While we have covered the NVIDIA Vera Rubin rack costs and BOM in the past few months
AMD is launching two new mainstream APUs, the Ryzen 7 449 & the Ryzen 5 439, and both of these come with an NPU-less design.
The debate of whether you need an NPU or not remains a hot topic. The addition of NPUs came at a time when everyone was diving into the "AI PC" space, with Microsoft's Copilot+ requiring at least 40 NPU
The 1.4nm process was previously reported to be progressing smoothly, with TSMC seemingly facing zero obstacles . However, the semiconductor giant wasn’t experiencing technical difficulties, but its plans to secure the necessary real estate were stalled due to protests from landowners. Fortunately, this little distraction is no longer a problem, as the latest report states that TSMC has secured the land for two 1.4nm plants and one panel-level advanced packaging facility.
The Phase 3 expansion of the Longtan Science Park faced a truckload
The arrival of the MacBook Neo has ushered in a wave of affordable Windows 11 notebooks. First, it was Dell’s XPS 13 , and now, we have Acer, which is quietly taking pre-orders for the Aspire Go 15, its affordable offering that’s powered by none other than Qualcomm’s Snapdragon C . It also packs the same RAM count as the MacBook Neo, and its listing price is much lower than the latter.
Alongside the 8-core Snapdragon C, the Aspire
A gaming laptop with a vapor chamber will often deliver superior thermals compared to a machine outfitted with a traditional heatpipe solution, assuming it has been designed correctly. With Razer, a Blade 18 owner reveals that this pricey purchase stopped throwing hot air from the vents, with condensation showing around the vapor chamber, indicating that the cooler had broken. Upon further investigation, it’s revealed that these gaming laptops ship with a major flaw that Razer hasn’t addressed.
There have been countless instances on Reddit where customers bash
A seismic shift in the DRAM industry has enabled major players like Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron to move away from their volatile and razor-thin margins and enforce a more stable business model that involves locking in long-term supply contracts and strict price floors through 2030. One analysis reveals that these manufacturers are sitting on $38 billion worth of deals, holding immense leverage over customers, but this position of power won’t last forever.
The DRAM supply to a multitude of customers has been
Windows 11 and its apps being RAM guzzlers isn’t a surprising revelation, but Microsoft has committed to making the OS as efficient as possible for systems housing 8GB of RAM . Unfortunately, that progress is yet to be witnessed as the company’s Weather app can consume a chock-full of memory. This is exceptionally frustrating for those who are trying to find ways to make Windows 11 work with a minimum amount of RAM or those who don’t know their way around the platform.
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Modder Crementif has released a new version of the BetterVR mod , greatly improving the experience of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in VR mode and also teasing a Mario Kart 8 VR port.
The first version of BetterVR (running on the Cemu emulator) launched around seven months ago . Since then, it's had 20 updates , all of which brought substantial improvements, fixes, and polish to the game. And there are more updates to come , too, as the modder is still planning to
Intel Diamond Rapids "Xeon 7" CPUs will offer up to 256 cores based on the next-gen P-Core technology to tackle AMD EPYC Venice.
The original plans for Diamond Rapids, Intel's upcoming Xeon platform, were quite ambitious . But it looks like the released chips will be a leaner version of what was initially planned.
If you remember our previous reports on Diamond Rapids, we discussed 384- and 512-core count variants, going beyond anything on the market.
