The Chief Engineer at Kioxia, Shigeo Oshima, recently gave a presentation at VLSI Symposium 2020 where he talked about the company’s plans for a “Wafer-Level SSD”, a potentially game changing approach to storage production. The process of creating an SSD device is usually a long and complicated one. It starts …
Read More »Tech is reportedly going to get much more expensive as silicon costs rise
Over the last year, we have seen plenty of price hikes in the tech world. A DRAM and NAND shortage has caused SSD and RAM prices to jump, but it looks like silicon prices are also set to rise over the next few years, which will have further reaching effects …
Read More »Can AMD get enough wafer slots at TSMC ?
If you service cars and don’t have enough of the right tyres, then it can affect production. Same for decorators and the right kind of paint brush. Sure, there could be ways around the supply issue, but it’s not ideal. With graphics, it comes down to wafers. KitGuru pulls out …
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