
Micron 9100 and 7100 PCI-E NVMe SSDs now sampling
Up to 3.0GB/s reads, 2.0GB/s writes, XPERT loss prevention algorithm
Last week, Micron Technology Inc. hosted a live morning webcast during which company executives announced a new lineup of enterprise NVMe-based PCI-E SSDs for data center customers featuring both the HHHL (half height, half length) form factor, the M.2 form factor and the slimmer, 7mm-tall U.2 (2.5-inch) hot-pluggable form factor.

SK Hynix GDDR5 8Gbit coming in 2H 2016
Samsung already has mass production
Chaps from the memory manufacturers that like to talk to Fudzilla have confirmed that 8Gbit GDDR5 memory will hit volume production in the second half of 2016.

Samsung prepares for memory price war
Wants market share over profits
Samsung Electronics changing its approach to its memory chip business and focus on market share over profit margins and the industry will suffer, according to one analyst.

Tsinghua Unigroup to build its own memory Fab
Invites Micron to lend a hand
The Chinese government's Tsinghua Unigroup is going to build its own DRAM fab and has asked Micron to be involved.

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.