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Offering some rare insight into the scale of HBM memory sales – and on its growth in the face of unprecedented demand from AI accelerator vendors – the company recently disclosed that it expects HBM sales to make up "a double-digit percentage of its DRAM chip sales" this year. Which if it comes to pass, would represent a significant jump in sales for the high-bandwidth, high-priced memory. As first reported by Reuters, SK hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung has commented that he expects HBM sales will constitute a double-digit percentage of its DRAM chip sales in 2024. This prediction corroborate with estimates from TrendForce, who believe that, industry-wide, HBM will account for 20.1% of DRAM revenue in 2024, more than doubling HBM's 8.4% revenue share in...
Intel HPC Updates For ISC 2023: Aurora Nearly Done, More Falcon Shores, and the Future of XPUs
With the annual ISC High Performance supercomputing conference kicking off this week, Intel is one of several vendors making announcements timed with the show. As the crown jewels of...
15 by Ryan Smith on 5/22/2023Asus Unveils Two Slimmer GeForce RTX 4090 Video Cards: ROG Strix LC and TUF OG
Asus has expanded the company's GeForce RTX 40-series product portfolio with two new RTX 4090 graphics cards. The ROG Strix LC GeForce RTX 4090 and TUF Gaming GeForce RTX...
6 by Zhiye Liu on 5/12/2023NVIDIA Launches Diablo IV Bundle for GeForce RTX 40 Video Cards
NVIDIA is launching a new game bundle for its latest generaiton GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards and OEM systems. This time, NVIDIA has teamed up with Activision Blizzard to...
11 by Anton Shilov on 5/9/2023AMD To Host AI and Data Center Event on June 13th - MI300 Details Inbound?
In a brief note posted to its investor relations portal this morning, AMD has announced that they will be holding a special AI and data center-centric event on June...
2 by Ryan Smith on 5/9/2023AMD Reports Q1 2023 Earnings: Slipping Back into the Red as Client Sales Crumble
Continuing our earnings season coverage for Q1’2023, today we have the yin to Intel’s yang, AMD. The number-two x86 chip and discrete GPU maker has been enjoying a growing...
6 by Ryan Smith on 5/3/2023Matrox Adopts Intel Alchemist GPUs for New Luma Graphics Cards
While they've long since given up developing GPUs, Matrox has remained a notable player in the video card industry for over four decades. These days, the company has settled...
26 by Anton Shilov on 4/28/2023SK hynix Now Sampling 24GB HBM3 Stacks, Preparing for Mass Production
When SK hynix initially announced its HBM3 memory portfolio in late 2021, the company said it was developing both 8-Hi 16GB memory stacks as well as even more technically...
1 by Anton Shilov on 4/21/2023AMD Announces Radeon Pro W7900 & W7800: RDNA 3 Comes To Workstation Cards
With their initial consumer desktop and mobile RDNA 3 graphics products now out the door, AMD today is turning their attention to the professional visualization market. The more lucrative...
31 by Ryan Smith on 4/13/2023Samsung and AMD Renew GPU Architecture Licensing Agreement: More RDNA Exynos Chips to Come
In a joint press release released this evening, AMD and Samsung have announced that the two companies are renewing their GPU architecture licensing agreement for Samsung’s Exynos SoCs. The...
3 by Ryan Smith on 4/6/2023AMD Computing & Graphics EVP Rick Bergman to Retire - Jack Huynh Named Replacement
In a brief press release sent out yesterday afternoon, AMD has announced that its executive leadership team is going to see some changes. Rick Bergman, the current executive vice...
1 by Ryan Smith on 4/5/2023Intel Leadership Shuffle: Stuart Pann in for IFS, Raja Koduri out for GPUs & off to AI Startup
In a combination of a press release and series of tweets from CEO Pat Gelsinger, Intel this afternoon has announced a pair of significant corporate leadership changes at the...
50 by Ryan Smith on 3/21/2023NVIDIA Unveils Ada Lovelace RTX Workstation GPUs for Laptops; Desktop RTX 4000 SFF
Along with their server part announcements today, NVIDIA is also using the backdrop of GTC to do a wholesale update of their professional visualization product stack. NVIDIA’s laptop lineup...
15 by Ryan Smith on 3/21/2023NVIDIA Announces H100 NVL - Max Memory Server Card for Large Language Models
While this year’s Spring GTC event doesn’t feature any new GPUs or GPU architectures from NVIDIA, the company is still in the process of rolling out new products based...
25 by Ryan Smith on 3/21/2023The NVIDIA GTC Spring 2023 Keynote Live Blog (8:00am PT/15:00 UTC)
Please join us at 8:00am PT (15:00 UTC) for our live blog coverage of NVIDIA’s Spring GTC keynote address. The traditional kick-off to the show – be it physical...
18 by Ryan Smith on 3/21/2023NVIDIA Bundles Redfall Bite Back Edition With GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs
NVIDIA has launched a new RTX game bundle for the chipmaker's latest generation GeForce RTX 40 series (Ada Lovelace) video cards. For their latest promotional offer, the company has...
4 by Zhiye Liu on 3/16/2023Cadence Delivers Technical Details on GDDR7: 36 Gbps with PAM3 Encoding
When Samsung teased the ongoing development of GDDR7 memory last October, the company did not disclose any other technical details of the incoming specification. But Cadence recently introduced the...
29 by Anton Shilov on 3/8/2023NVIDIA Releases Hotfix For GeForce Driver To Resolve CPU Usage Spikes
NVIDIA released the company’s GeForce 531.18 WHQL driver on February 28th. It didn’t take long before user reports started to pile up on the NVIDIA forums about a strange...
1 by Zhiye Liu on 3/8/2023AMD Announces The Last of Us Part 1 Game Bundle For Radeon RX 6000 & 7000 Video Cards
The Last of Us Part 1, a remaster of the original Playstation-hit, is making its way to the PC on March 28. To celebrate the feat or to let...
7 by Zhiye Liu on 3/8/2023Intel Scraps Rialto Bridge GPU, Next Server GPU Will Be Falcon Shores In 2025
On Friday afternoon, Intel published a letter by Jeff McVeigh, the company’s interim GM of their Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics group (AXG). In it, McVeigh offered a brief...
47 by Ryan Smith on 3/4/2023CES 2023: AMD Instinct MI300 Data Center APU Silicon In Hand - 146B Transistors, Shipping H2’23
Alongside AMD’s widely expected client product announcements this evening for desktop CPUs, mobile CPUs, and mobile GPUs, AMD’s CEO Dr. Lisa Su also had a surprise up her sleeve...
38 by Ryan Smith on 1/5/2023