Artificial intelligence faces an energy crisis stemming from a physical traffic jam inside modern computer chips. Processors ...

Large Language Models (LLMs) demand immense amounts of memory, and the more people use them, the more memory is required.

Producer Selectra Mo Etch selectively removes molybdenum for wordline separation to enable 3D NAND scaling. New systems are used by logic and memory chipmakers ...

Sandisk (SNDK) believes that artificial intelligence is “fundamentally changing” the NAND market, Morgan Stanley said, following a meeting with company executives. “At a high level, the demand for ...

Ring-oscillator process monitors give production test teams a fast on-die frequency measurement for identifying CMOS process variation and sorting dies at wafer level. A process monitor is a dedicated ...

For decades, the speed of transistors has been approaching its physical limit. Now, researchers have built a new type of vacuum/air channel electron tube that completely eliminates a fatal flaw that ...

Planar vacuum electron tubes made with microelectronics technology have been explored for over a decade as a potential successor to solid‑state transistors, because electrons in vacuum can travel near ...

It’s a bizarre day in the neighborhood. Billionaire Bill Gates devoted a great deal of time and money to try to make himself look as kind and approachable as TV’s Mr. Rogers — with his team even using ...

Samsung Electronics has produced the world's first functioning 900-layer V-NAND flash memory prototype — a record that nearly triples the layer count of any chip currently in mass production and ...

This photo taken on July 5, 2025 shows signage for Japanese company Kioxia, the world's third largest manufacturer of NAND flash memory chips, at their Yokohama Technology Campus in the Ofuna area of ...

The big picture: With memory prices skyrocketing, tech companies are exploring new ways to reduce the cost of AI development. Earlier this year, Google detailed its TurboQuant compression technique, ...

Major international NAND manufacturers are gradually exiting the mature-process 2D NAND market, triggering panic buying and a sharp spike in prices. Industry sources suggest the supply shortage may be ...