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SSD rival to Samsung reveals road to petabyte SSDs at major engineering conference — Kioxia wants 1000-layer NAND in 3 years and discusses HeLC, molybdenum, 100Gb/mm2 densities
At the recent International Memory Workshop (IMW 2024) in Seoul, South Korea, Kioxia discussed the technology and challenges of increasing the storage density of 3D NAND flash memory. Kioxia predicts that by 2027, storage density will reach 100Gbit/mm2 with 1,000 word line stacks. Reporting on Kioxia’s keynote, PC Watch notes…
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Spectrum-X promises adaptive routing and congestion control for maximum bandwidth and noise isolation, ensuring predictable outcomes for thousands of simultaneous AI jobs at any scale
Nvidia has announced the widespread adoption of its Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform, along with an accelerated product release schedule. Nvidia says Spectrum-X, the world’s first Ethernet fabric designed for artificial intelligence, improves generative AI network performance by 1.6 times over traditional Ethernet fabrics. The platform includes the Spectrum SN5600 Ethernet…
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‘It seemed like a crazy idea’: A tech expert got the inside story of how Blizzard saved big bucks by selling 10,000 old WoW servers to fans via a charity auction — and one of them even ended up as a wedding gift
While flying to SC23 (the 2023 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis) in Denver, Patrick Kennedy from Serve The Home had a chance encounter with a man on the plane who shared an intriguing story about Blizzard‘s decision to auction off its servers to fans. World…
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Arm unleashes its most powerful CPU and GPU design yet as it targets Qualcomm, Apple and x86 — Cortex-X925 Core and Immortalis G925 GPU offer significant performance gains as Windows-on-Arm gathers pace
Arm has unveiled its first compute subsystems for consumer devices, simplifying the development of processors for desktops, laptops, and tablets running Android, Windows and Linux. Building on its existing Total Compute solutions, Arm’s new CSS for Client platform includes the latest Armv9.2 Cortex CPU cluster (with the high-performance Cortex-X925 CPU,…
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16-core workstation from obscure Chinese vendor is fastest Mini PC yet — gaming-focused AtomMan GT Pt obliterates everything in this category, supports PCIe 5.0 and up to 96GB DDR
Minisforum makes some amazing mini PCs, and they don’t just look good, they offer a lot of performance for the price. AtomMan, Minisforum’s new high-end brand, offers G (gaming) and X (eXploration/AI) systems, and the latest product from this label is GT Pt, the world’s first AMD Advantage certified A+A…
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Adobe users are furious about the company’s terms of service change to help it train AI
Adobe is facing backlash over recent updates to its Terms of Service for the company’s generative AI products. The revised terms, affecting over 20 million global users of Adobe’s Creative Cloud Suite, include language that some users interpret as allowing Adobe to access, view or listen to their content, including…
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