Micron
Micron this week announced that it had begun sampling of its 256 GB multiplexer combined (MCR) DIMMs, the company's highest-capacity memory modules to date. These brand-new DDR5-based MCRDIMMs are aimed at next-generation servers, particularly those powered by Intel's Xeon Scalable 'Granite Rapids' processors that are set to support 12 or 24 memory slots per socket. Usage of these modules can enable datacenter machines with 3 TB or 6 TB of memory, with the combined ranks allowing for effect data rates of DDR5-8800. "We also started sampling our 256 GB MCRDIMM module, which further enhances performance and increases DRAM content per server," said Sanjay Mehrotra, chief executive of Micron, in prepared remarks for the company's earnings call this week. In addition to announcing sampling of these modules...
Micron 3D NAND Status Update
Update: We've got some more information and diagrams from Micron's Winter Analyst Conference earlier today. After samples of their upcoming 3D NAND were sighted in the wild at CES, Micron...
19 by Billy Tallis on 2/12/2016Micron Reports on GDDR5X Dev Progress - Volume Production This Summer
Engineers from Micron Development Center in Munich (also known as Graphics DRAM Design Center) are well known around the industry for their contribution to development of multiple graphics memory...
17 by Anton Shilov on 2/9/2016GDDR5X Standard Finalized by JEDEC: New Graphics Memory up to 14 Gbps
In Q4 2015, JEDEC (a major semiconductor engineering trade organization that sets standards for dynamic random access memory, or DRAM) finalized the GDDR5X specification, with accompianing white papers. This...
70 by Anton Shilov on 1/22/2016JEDEC Publishes HBM2 Specification as Samsung Begins Mass Production of Chips
The high-bandwidth memory (HBM) technology solves two key problems related to modern DRAM: it substantially increases bandwidth available to computing devices (e.g., GPUs) and reduces power consumption. The first-generation...
42 by Anton Shilov on 1/20/2016Price Check: DDR4 Memory Down Nearly 40% in 6 Months, Expected To Continue
Today we're launching a new feature on the AnandTech Pipeline: Price Check. Here we'll periodically examine hardware prices and analyze what's behind recent price changes. Just a year ago DDR4...
33 by Anton Shilov on 12/18/2015The Crucial BX200 (480GB & 960GB) SSD Review: Crucial's First TLC NAND SSD
The Crucial BX200 is the successor to the very successful BX100 and is Crucial's new value-oriented SSD. The BX200 moves to the newer Silicon Motion SM2256 controller and is...
86 by Billy Tallis on 11/3/2015Micron acquires SSD Controller Designer Tidal Systems, Inc.
A year ago, several veterans of SSD controller design firms SandForce and Link_A_Media Devices formed a new startup called Tidal Systems, Inc. to focus on developing NVMe SSD controllers...
12 by Billy Tallis on 10/9/2015Seagate and Micron Announce 1200.2, S600DC SAS SSD Families for Enterprise
Today Seagate and Micron are jointly announcing their latest generation of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) MLC SSDs for enterprise use. The new families of drives are designed to significantly...
15 by Billy Tallis on 8/4/2015Analyzing Intel-Micron 3D XPoint: The Next Generation Non-Volatile Memory
The current mainstream memory technologies, namely DRAM and NAND, have been around for decades. While clever engineering work has allowed the two to scale below 20nm geometries, both technologies...
80 by Kristian Vättö, Ian Cutress & Ryan Smith on 7/31/2015Micron M510DC (480GB) Enterprise SATA SSD Review
Most data center workloads tend to be read-intensive. It's only recently that SSDs have started to offer pricing low enough to replace hard drives in read workoads and a...
22 by Kristian Vättö on 7/21/2015Crucial BX100 (120GB, 250GB, 500GB & 1TB) SSD Review
Crucial has been doing very well in the client SSD market during the past year. Crucial's/Micron's ability to quickly roll out the 16nm NAND node definitely paid off because...
67 by Kristian Vättö on 4/10/2015Estimating Intel-Micron 32-layer 3D NAND Die Size
Yesterday Intel and Micron shared some new details of their 3D NAND technology and during the presentation they also showed a production wafer. I missed the wafer during the...
36 by Kristian Vättö on 3/27/2015Intel-Micron Share Additional Details of Their 3D NAND
Today must be the busiest day in the world of NAND. Earlier today, Toshiba announced that it has begun sampling of its 48-layer 128Gbit 3D NAND part and now...
35 by Kristian Vättö on 3/26/2015Intel's 3D NAND to Ship in H2'15: 256Gbit Die & 32 Layers
Last Thursday in its annual Investor Meeting Intel revealed the first details of its 3D NAND technology and announced that it will begin the shipments of 3D NAND in...
58 by Kristian Vättö on 11/25/2014Micron M600 (128GB, 256GB & 1TB) SSD Review
Those that have been following the SSD industry for a couple of years are likely aware that Micron does not sell retail drives under its own brand (unlike, e.g...
56 by Kristian Vättö on 9/29/2014Micron Launches M600 Client SSD for OEMs/SIs
Micron/Crucial has been one of the go-to manufacturers for value client SSDs during the past couple of years, but the one thing that the company has lacked is a...
15 by Kristian Vättö on 9/16/2014Computex 2014: Crucial Shows Ballistix Elite DDR4
Obviously one of the biggest topics of Computex this year is DDR4. Crucial will be bringing their DDR4 to the consumer market under the Ballistix Elite brand with speeds...
25 by Kristian Vättö on 6/4/2014Crucial MX100 (256GB & 512GB) Review
Computex is officially kicking off today and unlike many of the products announced at trade shows, we actually have a full review of the Crucial MX100 that is launching...
50 by Kristian Vättö on 6/2/2014Micron M500DC (480GB & 800GB) Review
While the client SSD space has become rather uninteresting lately, the same cannot be said of the enterprise segment. The types of workloads in the enterprise world can require...
37 by Kristian Vättö on 4/22/2014Crucial M550 Review: 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1TB Models Tested
In what is shaping up to be one of the most exciting months for SSDs in quite some time, we've seen Intel's new flagship SSD 730 just a couple...
100 by Kristian Vättö on 3/18/2014