
JEDEC officially publishes GDDR5X specification
To double the bandwidth
Just a few days after it has officially published the 2nd generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2) specification, JEDEC has now officially published the GDDR5X memory standard.

Micron makes surprise loss
Suddenly it became like everone else
While the bottom had dropped out of the PC market, Micron had been managing to do quite well. Today though it suprised observers by forcasting a surprise loss for the second quarter.

Micron buys all of Inotera
Thanks for the memories
Micron has bought Inotera's remaining shares for $3.2 billion.

Intel’s memory plans could kill Micron
Wall Street warns
Wall Street analysts have downgraded Micron technology’s value after Intel’s announcement that it will expand investment in NAND.

Intel gets into Memory
Converts its China plant
Intel wants to step up its involvement in the memory market by converting one of its Chinese plants to make memory chips.

3D Xpoint memory uses 20nm process
Intel confirms
Earlier this wee, Intel and Micron announced a new memory that is 1,000 times faster than 3D NAND.

Intel and Micron to introduce new 3D Xpoint memory
Products in 2016, 1000x faster than 3D NAND
Intel and Micron have just announced a new revolutionary memory called 3D Xpoint.

Tsinghua still wants Micron
Climb every mountain
China's Tsinghua Holdings is still hoping that it can by the US chipmaker Micron, despite offering a price which is too low and for a deal that might be blocked by security watchdogs.

Chinese Micron take-over will be tricky
Analysts warning
The takeover of the chipmaker Micron by a Chinese government controlled outfit is going to be extremely tricky, warned analysts.

Micron and Intel ship 256Gb 3D NAND
Toshiba and SanDisk start sampling 48-layer 128Gb chips
Micron and Intel have announced the availability of 256Gb NAND, the world’s highest density flash memory, but Toshiba is hot on their heels.