This chip startup just raised $135M on a bet that AI’s biggest bottleneck isn’t compute — it’s memory

South Korean chip startup Xcena is betting that AI’s real bottleneck is not compute, but memory.

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Chinese memory maker CXMT enters mainstream consumer memory with Corsair Vengeance DDR5 kit — Chinese-made DRAM emerges as an antidote for crushing shortages

Is the answer to the RAM crisis Chinese-made DRAM that’s much cheaper to source since those companies aren’t tied up in AI data center contracts? It’s too early to say yet, but when a manufacturer as big as Corsair starts …

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Team Group agrees to $1.1 million DRAM settlement in another false advertising lawsuit — claimed advertised memory speeds required BIOS tweaks and overclocking settings

Team Group denies all wrongdoing but has agreed to settle the lawsuit involving advertised RAM performance and overclocking-related settings.
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This $329.99 32GB Corsair Pro Overclocking kit is the cheapest DDR5 RAM on sale right now — ultra-fast 6400 MT/s memory upgrade for your gaming PC comes with $70 price drop that makes it $40 cheaper than its next-best rival

You can grab 32GB of fast DDR5-6400 Corsair Pro Overclocking RAM for just $329.99 right now. That’s a $70 price drop compared to its list price and one that makes it the cheapest option on sale, turning it into an unmissab…

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Scammers are selling fake DDR5 with empty plastic chips relabeled to pass as legit — fake components mounted to PCBs are yet another sign of the RAMpocalypse

DDR5 memory is overpriced right now, which might make some people desperate to get their hands on a good deal. Unfortunately, that could lead to you being taken advantage of with fake modules that are literally empty insid…

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Enthusiast builds his own RAM in garden shed cleanroom — fledgling array of memory cells groundwork for much larger future project

This is the ‘first time ever RAM has been made at home’ boasts a garden shed-based semiconductor maker.

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New cost-effective DDR5 memory ‘HUDIMMs’ show around 50% reduction in throughput with single subchannel — Two HUDIMMs are as fast as a single stick of regular DDR5 RAM

HUDIMM is being proposed as a cheaper memory spec using only 1x 32-bit subchannel per stick instead of 2x 32-bit in order to populate less ICs. Turns out, halving the bandwidth like that actually slashes the performance in…

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40 years ago we entered the megabit memory era with IBM’s DRAM breakthrough — a major leap beyond the 64 kilobit chips common at the time

40 years ago today IBM was in the news for becoming the first computer company with 1-megabit memory chips.

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New HUDIMM memory specification debuts with goal of slashing DDR5 prices during RAM shortages — A new, cheaper memory standard with half the bandwidth and half the capacity

DDR5 RAM usually has 2x 32-bit subchannels (single rank), which requires more ICs to populate a 64-bit wide bus. ASRock’s new HUDIMM has just 1x 32-bit channel and can work with standard DDR5 in mix-and-matched configs as …

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Just $284.99 for 32GB of Team T-Create Classic DDR5-6000 RAM is the cheapest going right now — this double-dipping deal saves $145 off the list price

Score the cheapest 32GB of DDR5-6000 memory on the market with this $284 Newegg deal. Dual discounts knock a massive $145 off the list price.
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