HPC News Bytes 20260126: Intel and Other Chip Stocks in Spotlight, Industry-Wide Supply Shortage, Micron Build-Up in Upstate New York, US Chip Investments by Region

Good late January morning to you! The HPC-AI industry threw its weight around last week in its usual fashion, here’s a ….

Micron Announces Sampling of 192GB SOCAMM2 DRAM

BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 22, 2025 — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU) today announced customer sampling of 192GB SOCAMM2 (small outline compression attached memory modules), intended to enable broader adoption of low-power memory within AI data centers. The company said SOCAMM2 extends the capabilities of Micron’s first-to-market LPDRAM SOCAMM, which Micron said delivers 50 percent more […]

SNIA Announces Storage.AI

Santa Clara, CA., August 4, 2025 – SNIA, a not-for-profit organization for technologies related to handling and optimizing data, today announced Storage.AI, an open standards project designed for efficient data services related to AI workloads. Storage.AI will focus on industry-standard, non-proprietary, and neutral approaches to solving AI-related data problems to optimize the performance, efficiency, and […]

Micron Unveils SSDs for AI

Micron announced three data center SSDs built with Micron G9 NAND, including what the company said is the first PCIe Gen6 NVMe SSD, industry-leading capacity for an E3.S SSD and the lowest latency mainstream Gen5 SSD for AI data centers ….

Micron Announces Sample Shipments of 1-gamma DRAM

BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 25, 2025 — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU) today said it is the first company to ship samples of its 1γ (1-gamma), sixth-generation (10nm-class) DRAM node-based DDR5 memory designed for next-generation CPUs to ecosystem partners and select customers. The company said “This 1γ DRAM milestone builds on Micron’s previous 1α (1-alpha) and […]

Micron Introduces PCIe Gen5 Data Center SSD

BOISE, Idaho, July 23, 2024 — Micron Technology, Inc. today announced availability of the Micron 9550 NVMe SSD – which Micros said is the fastest data center SSD for AI performance and power efficiency.1 The SSD integrates its own controller, NAND, DRAM and firmware into one product. The Micron 9550 SSD delivers best-in-class performance with […]

Micron Says its MRDIMMs Deliver up to 256GB Capacity at 40% Lower Latency

BOISE, Idaho, July 16, 2024 — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced it is now sampling its multiplexed rank dual inline memory module (MRDIMMs) designed for applications requiring more than 128GB of memory per DIMM slot. “Micron MRDIMMs outperform current TSV RDIMMs by enabling the highest bandwidth, largest capacity with the lowest latency and […]

Micron Announces Volume Production of HBM3E

BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 26, 2024 — Memory and storage company Micron Technology, Inc. today announced it has begun volume production of its HBM3E (High Bandwidth Memory 3E) solution. Micron’s 24GB 8H HBM3E will be part of NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs, which will begin shipping in the second calendar quarter of 2024. This milestone positions […]

HPC News Bytes 20231218: Intel’s Emerald Rapids Chip, New York State’s ‘Chips Act,’ Quantum Market Sizing, NVIDIA vs. AMD ‘Benchmarketing’

A happy Monday morning to you in the run-up to the holidays. Here’s a quick run-down on recent HPC-AI news, including: Intel’s Gen-5 Emerald Rapids chip, New York State’s “Chips Act,” quantum market sizing, GPU “Benchmarketing”: Nvidia vs. AMD

Micron Announces Shipment of Micron 3500 Client SSD

BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 05, 2023 — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced it is shipping the Micron 3500 NVMe SSD, which leverages its 232-layer NAND designed for, among other workloads, business applications and scientific computing. The c ompany said the Micron 3500 SSD, available in the M.2 form factor and with capacities up to 2TB, […]