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While SK Hynix planned to offer at least 665 GB/s of bandwidth with its HBM3 memory, the company has been able to handily surpass that goal. Today, SK Hynix officially announced the specifications for its HBM3 memory, with each module offering 819 GB/s of maximum bandwidth.  SK Hynix has become …

Today, SK Hynix is expanding its line-up of SSDs by introducing the new Gold P31 2TB NVMe drive. Previously, this SSD was available in 500GB and 1TB capacities, with the 2TB drive now arriving as the new flagship. The Gold P31 series SSDs are based on PCIe 3.0 technology, rather …

It was less than a year ago that SK Hynix started to mass-produced HBM2E, but the memory manufacturer is already working on the next generation of HBM memory. Named HBM3, the next-gen memory promises to deliver speeds of up to 5.2Gbps per chip, which translates into a bandwidth of over 665GB/s.

SK Hynix is already huge in the NAND flash and storage business but it is about to get bigger. Last year, the company announced plans to acquire Intel’s NAND memory and storage business for $9 billion, a deal that has now been approved by regulators.  SK Hynix is acquiring Intel’s NAND …

SK Hynix has started to mass-produce 18GB LPDDR5 DRAM modules for mobile devices, offering the largest capacity memory modules within the industry. Targeted at premium smartphones, SK Hynix LPDDR5 memory modules are also expected to be used by high-performance camera applications and AI. The first smartphone to feature SK Hynix LPDDR5 …

SK Hynix is already huge in the NAND flash and storage business but it is about to get bigger. Today. the company announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Intel's NAND memory and storage business for $9 billion.

After announcing plans to develop DDR5 memory back in 2018, this week, SK Hynix has announced its first DDR5 RAM modules.

Today, July 2, SK hynix has announced that it has started mass-production of high-speed DRAM,”HBM2E” – only 10 months after the company announced it had started the development process. SK hynix’s HBM2E is said to support speeds of over 460 GB per second, with 1,024 I/Os – based on 3.6Gbps …

According to an update on its website blog page, SK hynix will start mass production of its 10nm-class 16Gb DDR5 memory chip this year and is expecting DDR5 to account for 22% of the total DRAM market by 2021 and up to 43% of the market by 2022. DDR5 aims …

We are all patiently waiting to see AMD’s next-gen GPUs and more specifically ‘Big Navi’. There have been plenty of rumours lately regarding specs, one of which pulled SK Hynix into the conversation, forcing the company to respond and deny the rumours. One source claimed that the Radeon RX 5950 …

What does Leo think of this new memory kit from G.Skill?

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will be held in Las Vegas between 7th– 10th January 2020, so we don’t have long to wait until we find out what new and innovative technology will be launching in the new year. SK hynix will be there and have some new products on …

SK hynix Inc has announced it has developed new 1Znm 16Gb (Gigabits) DDR4 memory. 1Znm will offer the industry’s largest density and total capacity per wafer available in existing DDR4 DRAM modules. The company claims productivity of the new 1Znm memory modules has been improved by approximately 27% over the …

RAM prices have risen significantly over the last couple of years and while things are starting to settle down a bit now, there are still many who believe that something shady was going on. In December 2017, China’s economic regulator began investigating Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron in order to …

We still have some life left in the DDR4 generation but DDR5 is coming and SK Hynix is already at the forefront.

SK Hynix is the second largest DRAM manufacturer in the world behind Samsung. And after strong financial results for the last quarter, the company is looking to invest 3.5 trillion Won (£2.37 billion) in a new semiconductor fabrication plant at its HQ in Icheon, South Korea. SK Hynix has announced …

Since early 2017, we’ve been hearing about DRAM shortages and strains when it comes to supply and demand. In fact, the situation has been so seemingly odd that China’s economic regulator launched an investigation into market collusion. It looks like there might be light at the end of the tunnel …

Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron could reportedly be facing unpleasant fines up to $8 billion if found guilty for DRAM price fixing.

For the last year and a half, there have been consistent reports of a worldwide memory shortage. There has been debate over whether or not companies like Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron are unable to keep up with demand, or just unwilling, but theories aside, it looks like there is …

Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron enjoyed increased profits for DRAM in 2017, but the pricing spike has raised questions of collusion and artificially inflated pricing.

It's a new, consumer-grade SSD from SK hynix. At around £120 is it one to shortlist?

SK Hynix is gearing up for mass production of its GDDR6 memory within the next three months, claiming that almost all new Nvidia GeForce cards will sport the technology.

Back in September, after months of back and forth negotiations, Toshiba finally landed an $18 billion deal to sell off its chip business ‘Toshiba Memory Corp’. The massive sale was expected to complete by the end of March, but this week, Toshiba has announced that it will miss the agreed …

Hot in the heels of Samsung’s 16-gigabit GDDR6 announcement last night, SK Hynix has also begun listing its own GDDR6 memory modules as ‘available’. We’ve known for a while that SK Hynix has been working on GDDR6 with a 2018 roll out date in mind, though these chips won’t be …

After months of back and forth, Toshiba has reportedly signed an $18 billion deal to sell off its chip business. In the end, Toshiba did not end up selling its stake to Western Digital, opting for a consortium led by Bain Capital LP instead. Interestingly, this consortium does include SK …

It looks like Micron won’t be the only company pushing out GDDR6 graphics memory this year as over the weekend, SK Hynix announced its own plans to introduce 8 Gigabit GDDR6 DRAM modules. SK Hynix’s GDDR6 modules run at a data rate of 16Gbps, which is currently the fastest in …

There has been a lot of innovation in the memory market recently. First Intel launched its 3D XPoint technology and now, SK Hynix is introducing the industry’s first 72-layer 256 gigabit 3D NAND flash based on TLC arrays. By moving up to 72-layers, SK Hynix is able to stack 1.5 …

When we last looked at an SSD from SK hynix it was from their consumer portfolio. This time around we are looking at a drive from the other part of their storage business in the shape of the SE3010, a read intensive drive for the Enterprise market space. The SE3010 has been …

Word on the street this week is that SK Hynix is currently preparing to begin mass producing its HBM2 4GB DRAM chips in Q3 this year. According to a report published this week, 4GB DRAM production will begin in Q3, which will be swiftly followed by 8GB HBM2 DRAM in …

You may not have heard of KLEVV – the newest player on the consumer memory scene. KLEVV’s parent company, Essencore, falls under the same SK Group umbrella corporation as semiconductor giant SK Hynix. Thus KLEVV is practically a consumer memory arm for SK Hynix’s DRAM production capabilities. The setup is …